Publication: Sapa Issued: Johannesburg Date: 2006-11-06 Reporter: Sapa Reporter:

Schabir Shaik on Monday Morning

 

Publication 

Sapa
BC-COURT-SHAIK-SCHABIR

Issued

Johannesburg
Date 2006-11-06

Reporter

Sapa

 

Schabir Shaik on Monday morning heard the news of the failure of his appeal against corruption and charges with a heavy heart, Independent Online reported.

"I can't believe it," he said. "Boom, boom, boom, one, two, three, they didn't uphold anything. All the lawyers were wrong about what was going to happen."

What was extremely worrying to him was the Supreme Court of Appeal's denial of leave to appeal on count one, making a Constitutional Court appeal more difficult.

Shaik immediately went into a meeting with his brothers on the stoep of the Cape Town hotel close to the slopes of Kirstenbosch on the back of Table Mountain, where they were staying.

There was a heavy air of despondency as the brothers took tea and decided on future strategy.

Earlier, Shaik was extremely upbeat and, unlike his brothers, said he had slept "like a baby".

He decided not to listen to the judgment broadcast on radio, but went for a walk instead in the hotel gardens.

His two brothers, Mo and Yunis listened to the judgment for him and then went to call him from the garden where he was walking with his prayer beads.

Earlier, while having breakfast, he said that he had decided to have much more faith in "God's law", not in man's "since man's law was not as perfect *1 as the Lord's".

Shaik was scheduled to address a media conference in Cape Town by 12.30pm.

With acknowledgement to Sapa.


*1       The law is a ass, a idiot (sic) *2.

How can the poor man be alone with his misery while his co-conspirators are scott-free.


*2      "The law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor., a idiot!"
Mr Bumble (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 1837-8).