BOUWER van Niekerk, a Johannesburg-based attorney penned an opinion on a statement this month, written by a group of concerned advocates who "were outraged by what they viewed as racist attitudes toward black legal practitioners." In the process he unwittingly raises a point in law, regarding the...

SOUTH AFRICA'S media have been reporting on the surprise verdict by the country's health professions council. The HPCSA ruled last week after a six-year hearing into the affairs of Dr Wouter Basson, the head of the apartheid regime's Project Coast. The secret biological weapons programme which fl...

THE ongoing revision of apartheid history by South Africa's media has ratcheted up another notch with the publication of a hagiography of Wouter Basson in the conservative Mail and Guardian. The piece praising the man nicknamed Dr Death, and responsible for the apartheid regime's bioweapons progr...

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