New allegations surface in kidney transplant case

A City Press notes the state is opposing two applications for a permanent stay of prosecution. Operating from Durban's St Augustine's Hospital, the syndicate was so casual in the way it handled the donors that even its own members suggested having the donors evaluated in Israel before they were brought to South Africa to avoid detection, the papers allege. In their application for a permanent stay of prosecution, surgeons John Robbs, Ariff Haffejee, Neil Christopher and Mahadev Naidoo, who performed the transplants, have claimed malicious and selective prosecution. They say doctors who performed illegal transplants for Netcare in Cape Town and Joburg have not yet been charged. Full City Press report