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Original Post Date: 2009-03-04 Time: 10:00:07 Posted By: Jan
By Gugu Mbonambi
During his stay at Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik allegedly shunned hospital food and helped himself to Debonairs pizza or Steers meals and food his wife and brother brought him.
His son, Yasir, frequently visited him and they would spend time together in the hospital’s coffee shop.
Shaik was released on medical parole on Tuesday and was taken by private ambulance to his Morningside home.
| ‘Sometimes he looked sick and you could see he was in pain’ |
He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in June 2005 after being convicted on two counts of corruption and one of fraud, based on evidence that he had had a corrupt relationship with then deputy president Jacob Zuma.
However, he spent two years and four months of the sentence in private and prison hospitals due to a medical condition his family and doctors say is life-threatening.
A hospital staff member said Shaik was in B2 West, an isolated ward for critical patients or VIPs.
“Shaik was in a ward where patients only drank rooibos tea because it doesn’t have caffeine. But he would demand Five Roses tea and ate either Debonairs and Steers food or meals delivered by his wife or brother.”
According to the source, Shaik received preferential treatment, unlike other criminals in hospital.
The source said patients in the cardiac unit were not allowed food that contained oil and salt, or drinks with caffeine.
“Shaik enjoyed freedom and his hospitalisation was just for show.”
Staff said criminals were usually chained to their beds and not allowed to move around unsupervised, but this was not the case with Shaik. He would walk around with his son whenever he came to visit, and had meetings with his doctors in the hospital’s coffee shop.
“Shaik would go to pray at 5am, go to the canteen or coffee shop and was not always in the company of a guard, although he had three looking after him. He was not chained and was always walking to the cafeteria to buy juice, and at night he liked sitting at the level 2 smoking area,” said a source.
Another staff member, however, said she believed Shaik was genuinely ill.
“Sometimes he looked sick and you could see he was in pain. He would sometimes sleep until 1pm,” she said.
“I don’t think he liked hospital food because he usually ordered pizzas and Steers food and gave us the leftovers. Sometimes he ordered tuna salads, a roll, apples, cheese and crackers from the canteen.”