@pandemiccenter.bsky.socialPart 3 of the @dailymaverick.co.za series co-authored by @wilmotjames.bsky.social discusses FW de Klerk's suspension of Wouter Basson over apartheid’s bioweapons program, #ProjectCoast, and why Mandela rehired him in 1995 to contain dangerous secrets. ⤵️
@pandemiccenter.bsky.socialPart 2 of the @dailymaverick.co.za series co-authored by our @wilmotjames.bsky.social dives further into #ProjectCoast: Examining the front companies like Roodeplaat who built bioweapons under "Dr. Death" Wouter Basson, and why Mandela brought him back to dismantle it.
@pandemiccenter.bsky.socialFrom @dailymaverick.co.za: Part 1 of a 6-part op-ed series co-authored by our Senior Adviser @wilmotjames.bsky.social covers #ProjectCoast — Apartheid’s covert biological weapons program.
"Profound lessons can be learnt about how to – and how not to – govern high-consequence programmes."
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#Apartheid’s covert operation that built and dismantled SA’s biological weapons programme
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On 11 April 1994, the British Ambassador to South Africa Sir Anthony Reeve and US Ambassador ...
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AfriForum’s Basson event sparks backlash against March and March
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Basson’s appearance has collided with a much wider argument about South Africa’s unresolved apartheid history, political ...
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Who is Wouter Basson, the apartheid doctor known as ‘Dr Death’?
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More than three decades after apartheid ended, Basson remains a deeply divisive figure in South Africa.
His criminal ...
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WOUTER BASSON MUST TELL DIE VOLK ABOUT HIS MANDRAX ACTIVITIES- WERE APARTHEID SECURITY FORCE LINKS TO GANGSTERS EVER DISMANTLED?
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Among the poisons that Basson manufactured was the ...