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'Bogus' doctors: Hawks crashland

The Hawks have admitted they blundered when they arrested six foreigners for using bogus qualifications to work as doctors in South Africa.

The elite crime-fighting unit swooped on the six doctors - including a state doctor working in Kareedouw - two weeks ago and charged them with impersonating doctors. They have been held in custody ever since.

But Hawks spokesman McIntosh Polela said yesterday it had since emerged that at least four of the doctors were registered with the Health Professionals' Council of SA (HPCSA).

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