A South African inventor has lost his rights to the safe paraffin stove he designed, because a lawyer agreed to draw up an illegal transaction and refused to correct the error.

The invention should have resulted in Vale rapidly joining the ranks of the financially blessed, but, partly thanks to a major law firm turning a blind eye to the transgressions of a wealthy client, things haven’t quite turned out like that. In fact, our local hero has lost out big time.

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