Taking on the Quacks
Welcome to CAPETOWN ‘ the seat of a government that for many years confused it’s people about the best ways for treating HIV. Vitamins, olive oil, lemon and beetroot, and a number of traditional therapies were promoted over scientifically proven life-prolonging anti-retroviral treatment.
Cape Town is also the city where we begin our countrywide investigation into snake-oil salesmen and voodoo scientists.
Over two weeks, travelling to Durban and Johannesburg, we’ll find quack after quack openly advertising cures for anything from bad luck to AIDS.
This insert was aired on E-TV’s 3rd Degree on 25 November 2008.