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Malik Cassim, using what his wife Sadia Cassim calls the “gift in his hands,” presses on a patient’s back to show his assistants where cups should be placed. Cassim lost his ability to speak following a stroke in 2022. PHOTO: CARLINA HERSHOCK/THE HAWK

‘Still serving his purpose’

Helen Monek July 4, 2025

DURBAN, South Africa – Malik Cassim is alive. Although a stroke took his ability to speak, Cassim is still using what his wife Sadia Cassim calls the “gift in his hands” to help patients in the...

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