Every morning going to work I pass the loiterers at the corner of Second Avenue and Fourth Street, the known filthy drug alley of Springs.
There are also those dim dirty shops on Second Avenue and the usual rubbish pile along the street and on the pavement at the same place daily outside Viva.
What goes on in those shops?
What is hidden inside them?
A guy gets caught with R1.5 million of Cat and gets R2 000 bail!
Go to Selcourt where any car guard that approaches you can be asked for drugs and he goes off to the dealer and appears back with anything you have asked for.
Unless the drug dealers are eliminated and that means properly and permanently we will never have a drug free town .8
Putting anti-drug articles in the paper raises awareness but if the authorities don’t start getting really tough, and are backed by the courts we are getting nowhere.
Another pet hate of mine are the hundreds of posters advertising bring back lost lover, any manhood size you want, abortions and so on plastered all over town.
Many defacing buildings and municipal property, which is an offence.
All the school kids read these and visitors from out of town and overseas, what must they think of our population?
Why is rape on the increase?
Because if you get pregnant there are plenty offers of an abortion.
I took this up with Ekurhuleni and said why don’t the police contact these advertisers, their cell numbers are on each poster, set up a meeting to buy some potions and then arrest them and all their posters on the spot and charge them for defacing municipal property?
I know this was done in Johannesburg and in one instance the policeman found drugs and counterfeit money at the place as well.
Ekurhuleni’s answer to me was the police don’t have the manpower!
So how will Springs look in years to come?
Bob Gillies.
