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Original Post Date: 2007-08-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Heinz de Boer
Drugs are threatening to destroy the moral fibre of local communities, and authorities are not doing “nearly enough” to protect the innocent.
Democratic Alliance leader and Cape Town mayor Helen Zille on Monday had harsh words for drug peddlers and police, who she said were failing some of Durban’s and Cape Town’s grassroots level communities.
Speaking to the Daily News in an exclusive interview on Monday, Zille said she was shocked by the proliferation of the drug Tik, or Sugars, in Chatsworth, labelling it one of the greatest threats to the community.
| ‘We have been slow in waking up to the enormity of this crime’ |
Zille was speaking after a weekend visit to the area where she attended the Chatsworth Fair and visited the Aryan Benevolent Home.
Zille said she would continue visiting Chatsworth, in a pronged approach to curry favour with local voters and to possibly help establish drug rehabilitation centres as she has pioneered in the Cape.
“I was interested to learn during my visit that this drug is taking a strangle hold on communities in Durban. I have been given information that in some cases taxi drivers are distributing the drugs, and the situation sounds like a very serious one.
“This is one of the biggest threats facing the country and it is going to destroy communities, families and education,” Zille said.
In keeping with her “there is nothing wrong in South Africa that cannot be fixed by what is right” attitude, Zille hopes to join hands with local authorities to possibly help establish rehabilitation clinics.
Zille recently spearheaded a rehab campaign based on the work done by American social authorities who are battling methamphetamine addiction among thousands of youngsters. Tik and Sugars are derivatives of the drug.
Recent studies have shown that in Chatsworth, girls as young as 13 are prostituting themselves for the drug.
“Children have got to be taught that they cannot take this drug, not even once. Authorities are also not doing enough to empower children, and the police are not arresting nearly enough dealers.
“We have been slow in waking up to the enormity of this crime and we need to react very urgently to the threat. But the people of Chatsworth are fantastic, and the work I saw being done was very uplifting,” Zille said.
Meanwhile, DA caucus leader in the eThekwini Municipality Colin Gaillard is expected to lobby provincial government for sweeping changes in the way liquor licences are granted.
This came after a tavern bordering a church, creche and nearby high school was given a licence in Newlands.
“These largely residential neighbourhoods have a collective right to live without the influences that disrupt a moral lifestyle and corrupt the youth,” Gaillard said.