Dr Dawid Potgieter — Plastic Surgery Cape Town
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 72.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #6 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic, reconstructive and hand-surgery practice consulting at Mediclinic Constantiaberg (Plumstead) and two further Cape Town locations. The responsible surgeon is named with role and matched in the national specialist register; the operating hospital is independently accredited.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Matched by registration number in HPCSA iRegister: ACTIVE, category contains SPECIALIST and PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, matching the advertised segment. [hpcsa-dpotgieter] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by licence number: ACTIVE "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER" row in the same register. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [hpcsa-dpotgieter] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. CIPC Enterprise Search is login-gated (map closedAttempt) and its hosts do not answer this network; no secondary company route exists for South Africa, so the cell is scored on what the clinic itself publishes. No legal entity with a legal form and no company registration number is published on the pages loaded on 2026-09-20: https://plasticsurgery.capetown/. [site] [site-aesthetic] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or legal-entity registration numbers published on the site. [site] [site-aesthetic] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Presence scan on 2026-09-20: the site serves one live page (the home page, HTTP 200); the six internal pages linked from its menu answer HTTP 404. None of the five document classes is published. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] [site-aesthetic] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-aesthetic] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-aesthetic] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [site-aesthetic] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Dawid Potgieter (Dawid Jacobus Potgieter) [hpcsa-dpotgieter] [site] [site-aesthetic] | Specialist Plastic Surgeon | MP 0538604 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site] [site-aesthetic]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: could not verify
- Liposuction & body contouring: could not verify
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M4 · Facility registration SECMediclinic Constantiaberg, one of the practice’s listed operating locations, is COHSASA-accredited (Private And Non-private Hospitals, South Africa, February 2025 - February 2028) — name and location match.[cohsasa]
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://plasticsurgery.capetown/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +27 21 712 1312 |
| Address | Room 121, North Suites, Mediclinic Constantiaberg, Burnham Road, Plumstead, 7800 |
| City | Cape Town |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://plasticsurgery.capetown/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, addresses, phone, email | 31 August 2026 |
| site-aesthetic | https://plasticsurgery.capetown/aesthetic-procedures/ | clinic's own site | non-surgical aesthetic procedures (botox, fillers, chemical peels, dermabrasion) | 31 August 2026 |
| hpcsa-dpotgieter | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/i_reg_form | official register | HPCSA iRegister: POST .../getDataFromRnow regNumber=MP0538604 w_id=27 — Dr Dawid Potgieter (Dawid Jacobus Potgieter), matched ACTIVE rows "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE SPECIALIST ... PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY" and "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER" | 31 August 2026 |
| hpcsa-sanc-dpotgieter | https://www.hpcsa.co.za/api/website/find-all-document | official register | HPCSA published Guilty Verdicts 2025/2026 (category Judgements) checked for registration number MP0538604 — no match; cross-read against iRegister Status = ACTIVE (no ERASED/SUSPENDED/TERMINATED row) | 31 August 2026 |
| cohsasa | https://cohsasa.co.za/accredited-facilities/ | secondary | COHSASA accredited-facilities list: Mediclinic Constantiaberg listed as accredited (Private And Non-private Hospitals, South Africa, February 2025 - February 2028) — name and location match | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 1 (Re-run of the v1.0 retry cell: complete presence scan of the clinic site (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run of the v1.0 retry cell against the clinic site (v1.2 pass 1): the site names no legal entity, company register closed.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 4 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): voluntary accreditation is not a facility register: the finding moved to facts[]; axis not applicable) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
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