‘Still serving his purpose’

‘Still serving his purpose’

DURBAN, South Africa – Malik Cassim is alive. Although a stroke took his ability to speak, Cassim is still using what his wife Saadi Cassim calls the “gift in his hands” to help patients in the alternative medicine practice he founded in central Durban in 1999. Cassim’s family suspects other alternative medicine practitioners helped fuel rumors of her husband’s demise after he suffered a stroke in 2022. “[They] used to say that he died and he’s …