South Africa: Schabir Shaik's Medical Parole Needs to Be Revisited By the Courts

press release

The DA will write to the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Michael Masutha, to invite him to take the matter of Schabir Shaik's parole to Court to determine whether he should return to prison to serve the rest of his term of imprisonment, or whether his parole conditions should be altered in such a way that the South African public no longer have to be fed the lie that he is still terminally ill - eight years after his release.

Early in April 2009, Mr Schabir Shaik was released on medical parole from imprisonment after serving just more than two years of a fifteen-year sentence under the Prevention of Corrupt Activities Act. Of the short time he served, much of it was in hospital. Mr Shaik had been Mr Zuma's financial adviser, and many of the offences for which he was convicted were closely connected with Mr Zuma's alleged role in the defence acquisition programme. Mr Zuma became the President two months after Mr Shaik was released.

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