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Gauteng’s fight against drugs intensifies
A R2 million campaign aimed at communities that report drug-related crimes will be launched in Johannesburg in a bid to intensify the fight against drugs in Gauteng.
Gauteng's community policing forum board chairman Andy Mashaile said the campaign will be launched on Thursday.
It will mobilise the public to expose criminals, making it easy for the police to arrest them.
Departments meet to fight nyaope use
The Gauteng government is meeting to discuss how to fight the nyaope plague. The drug has not been classified as illegal.Move to classify nyaope illegal
In January Sowetan discovered that nyaope, a drug of choice in many townships, was not officially classified as illegal.MEC also calls for classifying of nyaope as illegal drug
Gauteng Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko has become the second high-ranking government official to call for the classification of nyaope as an illegal drug.Classify nyaope drug - MEC
The non-classification of nyaope as an illegal drug is undermining efforts to fight the war against crime, Gauteng social development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza said yesterday.No takers for Nyaope
Although common street drugs are well known and documented, there seems to be no department or body ready to strengthen law enforcement's hands by taking the responsibility to classify drugs such as nyaope as illegal.Lethal nyaope drug in schools
A grade 11 pupil from Eqinisweni Secondary School in Ivory Park was yesterday found in possession of the drug nyaope.‘I’m now like a zombie’
A mother was too traumatised to talk after her youngest child set himself alight and died on Saturday.Doctors linked to drugs theft
Doctors nurses and thugs have all been fingered in the rising thefts of anti-Aids drugs, which have been linked to the booming nyaope trade.Media can’t kick nyaope habit
A new rash of reports involving the theft of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs do nothing to dispel the myth that ARVs can be smoked and provide a ‘high’.
Reports in The New Age and The Star this week related how armed robbers stormed a doctor’s rooms in Soweto demanding ARVs to make nyaope. Nyaope, also known as whoonga, is a street drug made mostly of cheap heroin, rat poison and other substances.
While it cannot be denied that ARV theft is taking place and that the stolen ARVs might find their way into nyaope, The Star and TNA could have used the robbery as an opportunity to confirm that ARVs cannot produce a ‘high’ when smoked.
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