PUPILS REVEAL ‘DRUG DEALERS’ PARADISE’

PIGG’S PEAK – One would think dagga and drug dealings take place in areas hidden from law enforcers but for Pigg’s Peak town, they allegedly take place a stone’s throw from the police station.

Yesterday, during a schools debate, pupils revealed that drug and substance abuse were the key drivers for the scholars to turn to crime, including sex work and that this was happening right in the town centre. They actually identified an area which they have labelled ‘drug dealers’ paradise’. The pupils who took part in the debate were those from Mhlatane, Mbeka and Peak Central High Schools. Peak Central High (PCH) was awarded 1st prize in the debate. The pupils expressed concern that there was a parking lot which was being used as the ‘drug dealer’s paradise’. They, said the ‘drug dealers’ paradise, which is situated in the centre of the town, allowed dealers to meet, sell and discuss drug-related issues. The pupils narrated that this was the place where one could buy dagga of any quantity.

Action

They said this was happening so close to the police station yet no action was being taken. “If we know about it, how come the police do not?” asked the pupils. The parking lot also has an area where motorists often park, but pupils alleged that in many cases, dealers sit in their cars where they discuss how drugs will be transported. Pupils alleged that some of them got recruited from the parking lot and ended up dealing in drugs, especially dagga. The pupils said it was activities such as these that had the potential to lure them into committing crime.
Another concern the pupils expressed was that the many number of bars in the town was also a contributing factor. They alleged that some pupils carried extra clothes to school, particularly on Fridays and went to bars when school knocked off. The pupils questioned whether police officers knew that learners often entered bars despite that they were underage.

Poverty

Mbeka High School pupils, however, blamed poverty as the major reasons children ended up as sex workers, burglars or drug dealers. 

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