Project Coast

Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) programme instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa in the 1980s. Project Coast was the successor to a limited postwar CBW programme, which mainly produced the lethal agents CX powder and mustard gas, as well as non-lethal tear gas for riot control purposes.^[1] The programme was headed by the cardiologist Wouter Basson, who was also the personal physician of South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha.^[2]

^ Gould, Chandré (2006) South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare programme 1981–1995, PhD thesis. Rhodes University.
^ Marbot, Olivier (5 February 2021). "South Africa: 'Dr Death' discovered to still be practising medicine". The Africa Report. Retrieved 27 January 2023. The young personal physician to President Botha, Basson, a lieutenant colonel who joined the army in 1979, was a competent, extremely motivated volunteer.

[1] Gould, Chandré (2006) South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare programme 1981–1995, PhD thesis. Rhodes University.

[2] Marbot, Olivier (5 February 2021). "South Africa: 'Dr Death' discovered to still be practising medicine". The Africa Report. Retrieved 27 January 2023. The young personal physician to President Botha, Basson, a lieutenant colonel who joined the army in 1979, was a competent, extremely motivated volunteer.

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