Gone are the days when drugs were available only in Sivewright and Luipaard Streets because drug runners now are scouting suburban areas for new customers.
During a morning working session just after New Year, news journalists Marizka Coetzer and Jacobus Myburgh experienced first hand the sly dealings of a local drug runner.
While sitting on the veranda of Coetzer’s home with her baby playing peacefully on the lawn, a brave drug runner approached Coetzer and Myburgh with his offer.
“A foreigner in his twenties stopped at my gate and introduced himself as Josua,” said Coetzer.
She said she immediately felt irritated, thinking the man was a hawker roaming the streets begging for piece jobs. Nevertheless they asked him how they could help him.
He then replied, “I am a Nigerian from Sivewright.”
Again they asked, “Josua, how can we assist you?”
While indicating with his hand as to smoke a joint, he said he was selling drugs.
Coetzer and Myburgh explained to him that they were not interested.
The runner then insisted they take down his number and explained that should they want to buy any drugs, they should give him a call. He would deliver it to their doorstep.
They then decided to question the runner to gather more information about the drug underworld. The news established that most drugs sold in Sivewright Street are imported, then cut either in a Pretoria or Kempton Park drug warehouse and then brought to Krugersdorp.
While the runner promoted the good quality of the drugs, he also told them how they smuggle the drugs from places like Korea and Taiwan into the country by swallowing it and later excreting it.
For the next two hours the news witnessed how Josua rode up and down the streets of Quellerie Park on his bicycle to promote his ‘business’.
The news reported the incident to the Krugersdorp Drug Unit and they will investigate the matter.
