10 March 2025
Radio786 – Tashreeq Truebody, The Morning Drive Time Show, speaks to Dr Shafik Parker about his book “Parcel Baby – Aliases, Apartheid, Neurosurgery”.
21 February 2025
CapeTalk – Pippa Hudson, speaks to Dr Shafik Parker, a Cape Town neurosurgeon, about his new book “Parcel Baby – Aliases, Apartheid, Neurosurgery”. It is the story of indentured labourers sent from southern India to work in this country.
14 February 2025
Review by Mahmood Sanglay www.muslimviews.co.za
Dr Shafik Ahmed Parker’s memoir, Parcel Baby: Aliases, Apartheid, Neurosurgery, chronicles his extraordinary journey from being smuggled into South Africa as an infant to becoming a neurosurgeon under Apartheid’s oppressive regime. The book intertwines personal narrative with the socio-political history of the Indian Muslim diaspora in South Africa, exploring themes of identity, resilience and moral complexity.
Parcel Baby 