Kidneygate: What the Netcare bosses really knew

"Kidneygate" is the long-running saga of how - between about 2000 and 2003 - about 200 Israeli patients with kidney disease were brought to South Africa to receive organs from living donors who were presented as their relatives.

The donors were in fact poor Brazilians, Israelis and Romanians who were recruited by international organ traffickers and paid a relatively modest sum to give up a precious kidney - a criminal offence under South African law. Read on.