In his memoir, former state security boss Moe Shaik takes the reader through the most turbulent and uncertain parts of SA’s past. He also talks candidly about working with Jacob Zuma and about his brother Schabir’s relationship with the former president
It was the end of June 1985, some months into Durban’s temperate winter.Earlier, I had agreed with Yunis Shaik and Ebrahim Patel to be the decoy. Ebrahim had to be saved.
In the end, I accepted that the police had nothing on me. All I had to do was hold out for three days. I was torn between these conflicting emotions, yet submitted my fate to the direction of my seniors and to the awful thrill of what was to come.“Unfortunately, not. There is no other way out. If you run, we lose control of the situation,” Ebrahim had replied in his soft, controlled voice honed over years of living in the underground.“The police don’t have anything other than the details from the roadblock. But if you run, they will suspect more. The legend will hold.
As I’d listened to Ebrahim detailing his handler’s orders, I’d realised that I was to be the sacrificial pawn in this game. I was never quite sure in which capacity I accepted his words. It didn’t matter, I was part of the plan. Our trust in the movement’s leadership knew no bounds. They were our lodestars, our heroes, our pathbreakers.
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