Where are you from?
Who originally created you?
You are abusing the vulnerability of the youth.
You are sold in pubs in the CBD, train stations and taxi ranks because you are in demand, even the most honest officials trying to fight you are realising you’re spreading faster than a virus.
You are destroying families and lives of those who did not know if they tried you once they would be your prisoner.
Recently someone I know, who was a talented comedian, has become the victim of nyaope.
The joke now is on him.
His friends are doctors, lawyers and journalist’s like myself and have forgotten about him.
His dreams have been destroyed by just experimenting.
There is a war in our townships and in our families with nyaope.
We now fear those we love whom are victims of this drug.
We find victims of this substance sleeping on tombstones of people they did not even know.
What I do not understand is how a human can smoke a combination of heroin, detergent powder, rat poison, dagga and crushed anti-retroviral drugs in one go?
Early this year a 16- year-old young girl was taken to KwaThema to live with her step-dad.
She began dating another nyaope smoker, who is now in prison.
The girl did not know she was pregnant but her mom noticed and told her but she didn’t believe her as she saw her stomach growing and thought it was the drug.
She only went to the clinic for the first time when she was eight months pregnant.
The girl admitted to smoking nyaope while pregnant on a daily basis until just before she gave birth.
After giving birth she was clean for six months, but shortly after she relapsed.
This is the reality of what the drug does to those we love.
Sitting back as a parent pointing fingers at your neighbour’s child because he or she is addicted does not solve the issue.
Tomorrow your child too might be a victim of this drug and your wallet and your furniture will be at stake.
Lets stop judging other people who are in this situation Kwatsaduza, lets try empathising with each other and try finding a solution for this drug.
It’s time we work hand-in-hand with clinics, rehabilitation centres and the police to solve this dark cloud that is above us.
I ask you humbly as a citizen of this country and a neighbour of Kwatsaduza, lets start the fight against this deadly drug.
