October 28, 2002
Some name him “Dr. Death” and the description is not overly harsh. Aged 52, the son of an opera singer, a brilliant chemist and a burning nationalist, he has been at the centre of one of the most horrifying politico-military projects of the post World War II years.
In 1984 the Apartheid government was conducting subversive conflicts with neighbouring nations, particularly Angola, while continuing to promote anti-communist propaganda. Citing as part of its reasoning, the fear of biochemical attack, the then military authorities decided to develop a special unit, authorised to conduct Chemical and Biological Warfare ( CBW). Code name: Project Coast.
The then President of the Freedom Front, General Viljoen, Member of Parliament and a confidant of Le Pen (from whom he borrowed “the Frontiste Flame”) still boasts about his role in the political decision to implement the project, during his tenure as head of South African Defence, in 1980. It is he who appointed Dr. Wouter Basson, known as "Dr. Death”, to develop the project.
Some name him “Dr. Death” and the description is not overly harsh. Aged 52, the son of an opera singer, a brilliant chemist and a burning nationalist, he has been at the centre of one of the most horrifying politico-military projects of the post World War II years.
In 1984 the Apartheid government was conducting subversive conflicts with neighbouring nations, particularly Angola, while continuing to promote anti-communist propaganda. Citing as part of its reasoning, the fear of biochemical attack, the then military authorities decided to develop a special unit, authorised to conduct Chemical and Biological Warfare ( CBW). Code name: Project Coast.
The then President of the Freedom Front, General Viljoen, Member of Parliament and a confidant of Le Pen (from whom he borrowed “the Frontiste Flame”) still boasts about his role in the political decision to implement the project, during his tenure as head of South African Defence, in 1980. It is he who appointed Dr. Wouter Basson, known as "Dr. Death”, to develop the project.