The investigation of Doctor Wouter Basson by the Health Professionals’ Council of South Africa is expected to be continuing today in Pretoria. Basson, a biological weapons expert, has to answer to four charges before the council, including participating in the manufacture of the drugs Mandrax and Ecstacy and that he supplied former government spies with cyanide capsules.
During a previous hearing, Wouter Basson said that the drugs were manufactured for research purposes and were never used during riots or a war situation.
One of the witnesses against Basson during a previous hearing of the HPCSA, Professor Steven Miles, gave a lecture at Wits University in April. He is described as “an expert in medical ethics and an advocate for human rights”.
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He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a Faculty member at its Centre for Bioethics. Miles is the author of Oath Betrayed, “a book based on the profound betrayal of traditions that have shaped the medical corps of the US armed forces and of America’s abdication of its leadership role in international human rights”.