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- A Stuijt
- Retired South African medical journalist, ex-Sunday Times of Johannesburg.
Monday, 11 August 2008
Roaring drug-trade in South Africa under ANC-rule
10:57 | 
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Dedicated South African citizens volunteer for police-reservist duty in the country's police- airwing-units to hunt the country's many dagga-plantations from the air. The supercharged South African marijuana plants are hugely popular in Europe and smugged out in large quantities. The farmers plant the drugs amongst rows of maize and sugar-cane. The police-reservists try hard to combat the often heavily-armed gangsters, going to war against AK47s inside tiny, unarmed, unarmoured B3 helicopters (pictured here). They find drug-plantations on many farms belonging to 'previously disadvantaged farmers' in remote valleys, while government nature reserves also often are taken over by these drug-barons in SA. The country's local food-production has dropped steadily, but the marijuana-crops are being smuggled out in huge containers from South African East-coast harbours such as Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth. The Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal regions bordering the Indian-ocean harbours have the largest number of drug-growers. Huge quantities are also smuggled in from Lesotho and Swaziland on the backs of mules by large, heavily armed drug-smuggling gangs...
They can grow drugs - but can't grow food...
Yet these very same so-named 'poor black subsistence farmers' also seem totally unable to grow any excess food-crops for the local markets, leaving many millions of the poorest South Africans growing increasingly malnourished and hungry because they can't afford to buy a daily meal any more...
These police helicopter raids -- even by small volunteer-citizen units -- always book considerable success. The Port Elizabeth police airwing in August 2008 captured a huge cache of dagga while searching the Eastern Cape's Hosepipe Valley. The victorious PE police-airwing unit pictured here with their impressive dagga-cache include Capt. Frikkie Potgieter (in shorts) and the pilot senior superintendent Turry Jooste on the far right. The choppers are also used to destroy young dagga-crops by spraying them with herbicides.
Amalia NW resident murdered by 2 suspected drug-dealers
Private citizens who try to fight against the wave of armed drug-dealers often are dealt with ruthlessly by these huge gangs. On August 10 2008, an unnamed, clearly desperate resident of Amalia, a rural village in the former independent homeland of Bophuthatswana, now North West province, was murdered on August 9 while trying to obtain proof of the activities of two suspected drug-dealers in his village. For more info. contact tel. police superintendent Lesogo Metso - Amalia police station 27 (0) 53 96409640
Crime statistics, 2008, Amalia, NW:
http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/_provinces/n_west/pdf/amalia.pdf
Local police superintendent Lesogo Metsi said the courageous (albeit unnamed) 43-year-old resident suspected that the two men were selling 'dagga' from a local house -- dagga is the SA form of marijuana. So he went to that house to try and trap them into selling him some so that he could turn over the evidence to the police. However he was immediately beaten to death -- because the men didn't recognise him as one of their 'regular customers', police suspect. Beeld journalist Carla van Niekerk reported that the suspected dagga-dealers were arrested on charges of murder.
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2373384,00.html
SA DRUG TRADE ROARING EVER SINCE ANC-RULE FROM 1994:
This is just one small, deeply tragic example of how private citizens now have to wage daily battles against the roaring drug trade and their ruthless heavily-armed gangs in South Africa. Ever since 1994, this has become a highly-organised international criminal operation in South Africa.
This is not entirely surprising when one realises that the now-suspended SA Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi --a senior ANC-man who also used to be the Interpol chief -- was put on inactive 'duty' during the on-again, off-again investigation into his dealings with international crime-gangsters. South Africa's chief prosecutor alleges that Mr Selebi had a "generally corrupt relationship" with alleged mafioso Glen Agliotti - a convicted drug smuggler who is also accused of involvement in the 2005 murder of pro-ANC mining magnate Brett Kebble. Selebi is 'close'to SA president Thabo Mbeki, who resists calls for his police commissioner to be fired.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7186024.stm
DRUGS WEREN'T A PROBLEM DURING APARTHEID - During apartheid, drug-abuse centered mainly around locally-grown marijuana and relatively small quantities of imported mandrax from India - but now an uncontrollable tsunami of mainlining hard-drugs, supercharged marijuana and crack-cocaine is sweeping across South Africa -- addicting many tens of thousands of young people of all races and also causing serious socio-economic deprivation countrywide.
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