Dr Wouter Basson says he is confident his licence to practise medicine will not be revoked after his professional conduct hearing continues next year.
An unflappable Wouter Basson seems confident about the outcome of his hearing, and eager to get back to his swish cardiology practice in Cape Town.
Dr Wouter Basson acted as a doctor when he provided tranquilisers to help the SADF kidnap people, and not just as a soldier, an ethics expert says.
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.
The state is paying for Wouter Basson’s legal representation at the inquiry into his alleged unethical conduct.
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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/ 23 September 2011
South Africa’s Department of Health had "failed women" by not making it easy to access contraception.
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/ 21 September 2011
The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies says the green paper on land reform isn’t unconstitutional, but it is "vague and insubstantial".
Several medical supplies’ companies in Gauteng have not been paid for months, despite regulations requiring payments to be settled within 30 days.
AfriForum has vowed to fight any court attempts to overturn the ban on "Shoot the Boer", after the ANCYL accused the group of having "too much power".
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/ 13 September 2011
Vodacom’s decision to throttle the download speeds of heavy-use Blackberry customers is arguably in breach of the "spirit of the CPA", experts say.
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/ 13 September 2011
The ANC will appeal the decision to ban the singing of <em>Dubhula I’bunu</em> or "shoot the boer" in a ruling slammed by advocates of free speech.
Julius Malema might be facing an ANC disciplinary hearing, but the ruling party has leapt to his defence after he was found guilty of hate speech.
Cosatu says Swaziland will never be able to repay the R2.4-billion loan from the Reserve Bank, and South Africa should call it a gift.
Crime is down according to statistics for the past year, and people who don’t believe the good news are "cynics", says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
Advocacy groups are questioning whether the JSC properly applied itself to the consultation process of appointing a new chief justice.
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Jon Qwelane has won his case to have the Equality Court’s hate-speech judgment against him set aside, but this does not mean he is off the hook.
Jon Qwelane has won his case to have the hate speech verdict against him for a column set aside, but this does not mean he is off the hook.
Photographers say police are preventing them from doing their jobs properly by harassing, assaulting and detaining them, just for taking pictures.
Attacks on journalists outside Luthuli House are only the latest in a growing trend of animosity towards the media from party, police and the public.
The wage increase offered to striking municipal workers was "meagre", the South African Municipal Workers’ Union told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
While the public protector’s recommendations are not always heeded by the state, her Canadian counterpart says such reports are never ignored there.
Infant formula will no longer be supplied free of charge at government health facilities to mothers who are able to breastfeed.
More than 30 countries have recognised Libya’s rebel council, but SA has so far refused to accept its legitimacy, and criticised Nigeria for doing so.
As rebels swept into Tripoli overnight, the SA government said on Monday it had not yet recognised Libya’s transitional national council.
The DA-run Western Cape has seen the worst of Samwu’s strike violence while Gauteng has remained largely unscathed. We look at the tale of two cities.
The <i>Mail and Guardian</i>’s chief executive officer Hoosain Karjieker has been selected as the new chairperson of Print Media South Africa.
The <em>Mail and Guardian</em>’s circulation figures have spiked in the past three months, despite declining print circulations in South Africa and abroad.
The NSPCA is angry at how rats are being beaten to death in Jo’burg’s pest eradication campaign, but the city has given their concerns short shrift.
It might sound counterproductive, but any strategy to address violence against women has to work to empower men too, says Helen Joseph speaker.
The long-awaited NHI policy document is available for public comment. Don’t feel like wading through the 59-page document? Read our breakdown.