South African Doctor Who Tried to Wipe Out Black People Still Practising – iAfrica.com

A private hospital group in South Africa has defended itself amid an uproar that the man dubbed Dr Death practises from two of its clinics. Mediclinic said it could not stop Wouter Basson from practising as he was a registered doctor. The cardiologist headed an apartheid-era secret germ warfare programme. He has faced down numerous legal challenges over his work to produce drugs and agents to target anti-apartheid activists. Details of Project Coast emerged after the end of apartheid when it was revealed he was searching for a black bomb a biological weapon that would only attack black people. Dr Basson is also alleged to have provided security forces with cyanide to help them commit suicide, weaponised thousands of 120mm mortar bombs with teargas, provided drugs that would disorientate prisoners and looked at ways of making black women infertile. Dr Basson, who has been working as a cardiologist in Cape Town since 2005, was due to lose his medical licence after the countrys health council convicted him of professional misconduct in 2013. But in 2019 a judge ruled that two members of the disciplinary panel of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) had to recuse themselves because of bias meaning the proceedings would have to start from scratch. Mediclinic Southern Africa was responding to a Twitter storm after Dr Basson was found listed on its website as working at Mediclinic Durbanville and Mediclinic Panoroma in Cape Town.

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