{"id":50026,"date":"2023-04-25T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T11:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/drug-trade-rife-across-city-and-no-longer-hiding-in-plain-sight-20230425\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:52:10","slug":"drug-trade-rife-across-city-and-no-longer-hiding-in-plain-sight-20230425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/drug-trade-rife-across-city-and-no-longer-hiding-in-plain-sight-20230425\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug trade \u2018rife across city\u2019 and no longer ‘hiding in plain sight’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cHiding in plain sight: Heroin\u2019s stealthy takeover of South Africa\u201d reads the title of a March 2019 research study by Simone Haysom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward four years and Wynberg residents can tell you there is nothing stealthy about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proliferation of discarded needles found in public open spaces and even private gardens in Wynberg was one of the main concerns raised at a police community meeting held at Muhammadeyah Primary School on Saturday 11 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ansar Salie, chair of the Wynberg Community Policing Forum (CPF), says it has become an everyday occurrence to walk down just about any street in Wynberg and see a heroin addict shooting up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is happening all over, predominantly in Sector 2, the lower area of Wynberg. And if you do arrest someone for using drugs in public, the case just gets kicked out in the courts. It is seen as a misdemeanour. The police and law enforcement don\u2019t even bother to arrest them anymore,\u201d claims Salie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, People\u2019s Post<\/em> <\/span>reported<\/a> on a Wynberg church and the local Community Action Network\u2019s (CAN) plea to local government to establish an addiction recovery programme, accessible to all in their community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Reverend Graham Goodwin of Church Street Methodist, Wynberg was not dealing with a homelessness problem but an addiction problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the nearest public programme (the City of Cape Town\u2019s Matrix Programme) is located in Parkwood Estate \u2013 which is roughly 5,2 km away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodwin said heroin addicts wanting to detox also had the additional obstacle of having to wait for a bed in Stikland Hospital or one of the other state hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People\u2019s Post<\/span> asked the City if there perhaps were plans in the pipeline to bring or support a public addiction recovery programme to Wynberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia van der Ross, Mayco member for community services and health, says the City does see clients from Wynberg, including heroin clients, accessing services at the Parkwood Matrix site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of them walk to the clinic. It is possible to get clients into the Stikland detox unit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van der Ross says the delay is in getting an admission date for an inpatient centre, which most heroin clients require.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, it is in the waiting that the Matrix programme provides a holding space for the clients. We would encourage clients from the Wynberg area to continue accessing services at the Parkwood Matrix site,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salie agrees that Wynberg is in dire need of a rehab centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, he says, that is just one aspect of the drug problem in the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other is the high number of drug dealers doing business out of Wynberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another research study<\/a> by Haysom found that Wynberg had become a neighbourhood where users congregate to buy and use heroin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haysom said the drug market was controlled by syndicates who also controlled the sex trade in the neighbourhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAn exploitative system of prostitution and heroin use are intertwined in the suburb, as well as a resident rough-sleeper population of people who use heroin, many of whom are injectors,\u201d <\/div>\n
Simone Haysom<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Salie says the police and law enforcement need to come to the party now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can go on about why the area has become a hub for drug dealing \u2013 the drug peddling, easy access to drugs, drug addicts hoarding to Wynberg. But at the end of the day a collective effort is needed from law enforcement and the police to step up and remove these drug dealers from our neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salie says this process is taking too long and too little focus is given to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is blameshift and \u2018whose responsibility it is\u2019 going on all the time between the law enforcement agencies. \u2018This is my problem, this is your problem, it is a bylaw issue.\u2019 But these are crimes at the end of the day and both parties are custodians of crime prevention. They need to tackle it as one,\u201d says Salie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People\u2019s Post<\/em><\/span> asked the City\u2019s law enforcement agencies if inroads were being made in the fight against the drug trade in Wynberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro Police spokesperson Ruth Solomons says the South African Police Service is the primary agency tasked with crime prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe City acts in support of the police. In terms of the Metro Police Department\u2019s operations in Wynberg, between Saturday 1 October last year and Monday 10 April, they made 18 arrests \u2013 12 were drug-related. In addition, officers issued 364 traffic fines and 88 by-law fines,\u201d says Solomons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement spokesperson Wayne Dyason says from a law enforcement perspective, officers received 304 service requests, issued 409 fines for various transgressions, made 29 arrests and conducted 969 hotspot patrols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dyason says the drug trade is rife across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe City receives ongoing complaints from various communities. Our enforcement agencies do receive complaints from the Wynberg area, and officers do their best to respond, either through joint or autonomous operations. However, due to the many demands on our services, it is not always possible to maintain a presence in an area around the clock,\u201d says Dyason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Wynberg Police spokesperson, Captain Silvino Davids, there has been a slight increase in drug users within the police precinct in the past year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davids says hotspots in the area include Station Road, Lower Church Street, Main Road, the CBD, the railway station and the PTI interchange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He adds the challenge faced by the police on this matter is that there are different dealers from different areas active in Wynberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDrug abuse is a problem in Wynberg. Several complaints is received in the Wynberg area. Drug arrest is affected daily, both dealers and users are being arrested,\u201d<\/div>\n
Captain Silvino Davids<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Davids says integrated operations with other law enforcement agencies, which include law enforcement, Metro, and other security agencies, are held to address the current drug issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese operations will take place regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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