JUSTICE MALALA: If Zuma holds on to power, the anger will explode
'The people cannot take this dysfunctional state any longer. They can't take the warning signs of poverty and inequality any longer. Their anger is palpable'
On Saturday morning I called my friend Doc Tilala and told him I was driving into my mother's village in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria. I was in luck, he said. He was walking back from a funeral. I could meet him on the main road "at the second hump" into the village. So, I did. "We have just been to bury one of these nyaope boys," Doc told me solemnly as he settled his lean, stylish frame into the car seat. "He overdosed. We see a lot of that these days." Nyaope is the highly addictive, cheap, easily accessible drug that has spread like wildfire in townships and villages everywhere.In this village, the drug is ubiquitous. Virtually every family here has now been affected. In the townships and villages around Tshwane no conversation ends without touching on what nyaope is doing to communities. Addictions have, he says, led to an increase in petty theft. Addicts steal anything they can lay their hands on. School fences ripped down. Gates stolen. Windows stolen. "Grandmothers now lo...
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