Taking on the Quacks
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.
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Taking on the Quacks
by anna-maria-lombard, Health-e News
December 1, 2008
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