Birth programme `patriotic'

Johannesburg - A South African doctor who led an apartheid-era project to develop an anti-fertility vaccine to cut black birth…

Johannesburg - A South African doctor who led an apartheid-era project to develop an anti-fertility vaccine to cut black birth rates said yesterday he did it out of love for his country.

"I joined the project for patriotic reasons. I thought we were involved in a war for our survival," Dr Daniel Goosen, a veterinarian and pathologist, said in a newspaper interview.

"I was told the growing black population, and of course communism, were the overwhelming threats to white South Africa."

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