EFF advises Schabir Shaik to focus on ‘fake illness’

Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik should focus on his “fake illness” before the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) calls for his parole to be reviewed, the party said on Monday.

Shaik caught the party’s attention when he responded to EFF leader Julius Malema’s comments that Indian businesses exploited Africans in their shops.

Malema made the comments during his party’s birthday celebrations in Durban at the weekend.

Shaik, who was released on parole eight years ago for ‘health’ reasons, told News24 that he was disappointed in Malema.

“This fool is misinformed, and does not have any insight with regard to business ownership in KZN. Why does he not talk about Huletts and other big white capital and business in the province?

“The issue of land distribution must begin with Huletts; why is Malema silent on this?” he asked.

The party has responded to the parolee and said it is people like him (Shaik) who divert attention by making ‘false alarms that EFF is inciting violence, instead of confronting the racism African people suffer in the Indian community’.

“We shall never keep quiet, particularly in the face of hypocritical criticism coming from convicted criminals like Schabir Shaik who in order to avoid serving his sentence went to fake terminal illness. We advise Shaik to focus on his fake illness before we have to call for his parole to be reviewed.  

“The Indian community in Durban, and elsewhere in the country, needs to confront its own ills and the normalised hatred African people experience among them,” the party said.

It said apartheid created an impression that Indians were better blacks than Africans and coloureds.

“This mentality has constituted the attitude of many Indian people in the ways in which they treat Africans in labour, business and general human relations. We reject this attitude and call for its transformation, as well as a better treatment of Africans.  

“We make no apology that each time we come across the suffering and oppression of our people, we shall not mince our words, nor tiptoe around false minority feelings. Oppression must be exposed and named for what it is. When Africans in many townships explode in xenophobic violence against Pakistanis and other Africans from the continent, we condemn them.”

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