The stage play Coast,takes you back to Wouter Basson’s court testimony regarding Project Coast that executed the murders of Swapo operatives
How did a man who headed the apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare program Project Coast manage to stay in business in post-apartheid SA?
Wouter Basson, who headed the apartheid government’s secret chemical and biological warfare project, has failed in his challenge against the HPCSA.
Wouter Basson has been granted permission to apply for the recusal of two members of the HPCSA committee sentencing him for unprofessional conduct.
Wouter Basson’s lawyer, Jaap Cilliers, said that his client "wouldn’t have been a doctor by now" had he not brought the application.
After 14 years of delays, the Health Professions Council should have seen what was coming in the Wouter Basson case.
Wouter Basson’s lawyers have called for the recusal of an HPCSA committee over suspected involvement in a petition to strike him off the medical roll.
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/ 19 January 2015
Wouter Basson and his legal team walked out of his sentencing hearing to file an urgent interdict at the high court in Pretoria.
On the second day of the trial, Wouter Basson’s lawyer went for the kill, while a witness said Basson’s actions cannot go unpunished.
A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.
The council deciding Wouter Basson’s fate is fuelling "ambulance chasing" by encouraging the public to complain about doctors, a medical group says.
Advocate Salie Joubert has accused controversial cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson of being an "untruthful witness" and not accepting responsibility.
The committee presiding over the inquiry into Wouter Basson’s professional conduct has ruled evidence the prosecution sought to use inadmissable.
The hearing into chemical weapons expert Dr Wouter Basson hit a snag when his counsel accused the prosecutor of making factually incorrect statements.
Wouter Basson says former president Nelson Mandela reappointed him to an army post, because the US and UK insisted the state keep a close eye on him.
Wouter Basson has told the HPCSA that he was acting "for the benefit of mankind" when he led the development of chemical weapons during apartheid.
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/ 27 January 2012
Germ expert’s counsel calls for the discounting
of evidence on ethics based on a lack of context.
The ANC is not best pleased by the fact that the state is footing Dr Wouter Basson’s legal bills, but says there is nothing to be done about it.
Dr Wouter Basson’s conduct as the apartheid government’s chemical warfare chief contravened international conventions, a bioethics expert says.
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/ 26 September 2011
Dr Wouter Basson risks losing his licence should a hearing find him guilty of making Mandrax, Ecstasy and drugs used to sedate SADF prisoners.
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