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Physiotherapist Romy Parker’s colleagues in the South African pain management community refer to her as “the matriarch” of pain. Photo: Supplied
HEALTHCARE

Meet the ‘matriarch of pain’ who wants to change how SA treats patients

Pain is the leading reason people seek medical care, yet chronic pain remains widely misunderstood and mistreated. Physiotherapist and researcher Professor Romy Parker has spent…

  • Sean Christie
17 min read
A whodunit: We still do not know who was responsible for the earlier thwarted attempt to poison Siphiwo Mtimkulu with thallium. Does Dr Wouter Basson know? Poster by Janet Cherry
SOUTH AFRICA

Dr Wouter Basson, please tell us who poisoned Siphiwo Mtimkulu

As apartheid chemical warfare head Wouter Basson fills theatre seats, an unresolved question lingers about the 1981 thallium poisoning of activist Siphiwo Mtimkulu and its…

  • John G Clarke
6 min read