Bouwer, a native South African, was also a serial fabricator who had engineered his academic advancement with decades of spectacular, self-serving lies.

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The proprietor, Chris Bouwer, a trained opera singer who has performed across Europe, sings with local guest performers while you tuck into the house speciality of Karoo lamb shank.

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Later, when I wrote about the case for the New Yorker, I found staff members to be remarkably frank -- not just about Bouwer's crimes, but about their own institution's shortcomings.

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"Whether enjoying games, photos and videos your way or presenting to a large audience, SlimPort accessories add endless value to your smartphone, " said Andre Bouwer, Vice President of Marketing for Analogix Semiconductor.

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Yet he would still be practicing medicine today if not for the single-minded persistence of a junior doctor, Andrew Bower, who, unlike virtually everyone else in the university hospital, strongly suspected Colin Bouwer of murder and worked with the police to bring him to justice.

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In 2002, Dr. Colin Bouwer, the Head of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I used to be on staff, was found guilty of murdering his wife by secretly and repeatedly injecting her with glucose-lowering drugs, sometimes in the university's own teaching hospital.

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