A Dark Parallel Between Basson's Drug Strategy and Today's Gambling Epidemic By Paul Kruger | Mental Health Professional & Community Advocate | Cape Town The Uncomfortable Truth In the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Wouter "Dr. Death" Basson headed Project Coast—the apartheid government's secret chemical weapons program. His team allegedly: Manufactured Mandrax, Ecstasy, and cocaine for crowd control and to suppress dissent Exported/sold drugs to anti-apartheid communities, including "