Shaik's R10m mansion offer

It keeps getting better. Not bad from someone who is on the 'brink of death'. Now, do you need further proof that this 'terminal illness' crap is bogus? This Shaik affair is a foretaste of a South Africa under Zuma, a country of favours for pals.

See also: JZ defends Shaik - Jacob Zuma has lashed out at South Africans for wanting Schabir Shaik dead.

And Shaik's former cell mate dies in Westville Prison

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Schabir Shaik offered R10 million to buy a house in Durban a week before he was released from hospital on early parole, the Mail&Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.

Pam Golding Properties Durban manager Carol Reynolds confirmed that Shaik made a verbal offer of R10m for the Eastbourne Road property, but a written offer of R9.8m which has also been "on the table" was accepted, the report read.

The two-storey, five-bedroom house is on the same street as King's House, the official Durban residence of the state president.

Shaik was released on early parole last week after serving two years and four months of a 15-year fraud and corruption sentence, related partly to a bribe a court found he had facilitated for ANC president Jacob Zuma from an arms company.

Questions have been raised over whether Shaik is indeed terminally ill - a requirement for medical parole.

In 2006 the asset forfeiture unit seized R34m in assets from Shaik and his three Nkobi companies after they were deemed to be proceeds or benefits of his relationship with Zuma.

In January this year the National Prosecuting Authority agreed to pay Shaik half the R14m interest this had accrued over two years.

He was paid R5m in cash and another R2m to cover his legal fees.

The rest of the interest and the original R34m were deposited into the criminal asset recovery account.