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A whodunit: We still do not know who was responsible for the earlier thwarted attempt to poison Siphiwo Mtimkulu with thallium. Does Dr Wouter Basson know? Poster by Janet Cherry
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Dr Wouter Basson, please tell us who poisoned Siphiwo Mtimkulu

As apartheid chemical warfare head Wouter Basson fills theatre seats, an unresolved question lingers about the 1981 thallium poisoning of activist Siphiwo Mtimkulu and its…

  • John G Clarke
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