Hy was vir 25 jaar verslaaf aan dwelms. Sy verslawing het sy ma so geknou dat sy \u2019n paar beroertes gehad het en uiteindelik bedl\u00eaend was. <\/p>\n
Maar vandag is die 44-jarige Anwar Solomons van Avianpark in Worcester vyf-en \u2019n half jaar dwelmvry. Hy is weer getroud, besit \u2019n vierslaapkamerhuis en het \u2019n vaste werk. <\/p>\n
Hy is ook betrokke by die geloofsgebaseerde organisasie HOPE, wie se uitsluitlike doel is om uit te reik na diegene wat aan alkohol en\/of dwelms verslaaf is. <\/p>\n
Solomons \u2013 die middelste van drie kinders \u2013 s\u00ea hy het in \u2019n gelukkige huis in Hexpark grootgeword. <\/p>\n
Volgens hom het sy pa sy eie sakeonderneming gehad en het hy as kind alles gehad wat sy hart begeer het. <\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea sy ouers is geskei toe hy 16 jaar oud was. Volgens hom het die egskeiding hom hard getref. <\/p>\n
\u201cOmdat ek daardie tyd \u2019n vaderfiguur gesoek het, het ek \u2019n ouer vriend ontmoet wat ek as \u2019n vader gesien het, maar ongelukkig was hy op dwelms. Hy was my rolmodel en ek wou alles doen wat hy doen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Solomons het di \u201cvaderfiguur\u201d hom aan dwelms blootgestel. <\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea die man het geweet hy is bereid om enigiets te doen, soos om diefstal te pleeg, mense te beroof en aan te rand. <\/p>\n
Volgens Solomons het hy aanvanklik eers gerook, toe volg die dagga, Mandrax en tik. <\/p>\n
Solomons s\u00ea sodra hy klaar gerook het \u2013 kort nadat hy by die skool opgedaag het \u2013 het hulle oor die skool se heining gespring en by huise gaan inbreek. Hy is in gr. 10 uit die skool. <\/p>\n
Solomons s\u00ea omdat hy vriende in Riverview gehad het, was hy weinig tuis. <\/p>\n
Toe hy 20 jaar oud was, het hy by bende-aktiwiteite betrokke geraak.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het nie ge-mind<\/i> om jou met die mes te steek nie. Daai is die lewe wat ek gelei het toe ek lid van \u2019n bende geword het.\u201d <\/p>\n
Solomons s\u00ea toe hy 30 jaar oud was, het hy besluit om nie meer so aktief in die bendes te wees nie. Dit het gekom nadat \u2019n vriend van hom doodgesteek is. Hy het toe teruggetrek huis toe. <\/p>\n
Volgens hom het hy die huisraad begin steel. Hy s\u00ea sy ma het onder meer matriekafskeidrokke gemaak en klere van mense verstel. Volgens hom het hy di\u00e9 klere \u2013 waarvan baie nog nuut was \u2013 asook die materiaal gesteel en dit vir dwelmgeld verkoop. <\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea sy broer en suster se besittings het ook onder hom deurgeloop. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy ma het in daardie stadium alleen in die huis gewerk. Ek het haar geld begin vat. Dit was alles moeilik vir my ma \u2013 sy kon later nie meer nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Solomons het hy \u2019n skrikbewind in sy ouerhuis gevoer. \u201cEk sou goed in die huis stukkend slaan of gooi om geld te kry.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea sy gedrag het sy ma se ondergang beteken. \u201cTik maak jou mos wreed; jy worry<\/i> nie wat jy aan ander mense doen nie.\u201d <\/p>\n
Volgens Solomons het sy gedrag sy ma twee beroertes besorg. Hy s\u00ea toe sy ma die derde beroerte kry, was hy reeds vier jaar dwelmvry. <\/p>\n
Volgens hom is hy vir die eerste keer na \u2019n rehabilitasiesentrum vir alkohol- en dwelmverslawing \u2013 bloot om sy ouers tevrede te stel.<\/p>\n
Solomons s\u00ea hy was in altesame ses rehabilitasiesentrums. Hy s\u00ea telkens sodra hy ontslaan is, het hy dieselfde dag nog weer begin rook. Hy meen dit is omdat hy nie sy vriendekring verander het nie. <\/p>\n
Volgens Solomons het sy paadjie met HOPE die eerste keer gekruis toe Roderick Boer \u2013 een van die stigterslede van HOPE \u2013 na iemand wat naby hom (Solomons) gewoon het, uitgereik het. <\/p>\n
Solomons s\u00ea hy het aan Boer genoem hy (Solomons) het ook hulp nodig. <\/p>\n
Volgens Solomons het hy \u2019n dogter van 20 jaar oud met wie hy \u2013 as gevolg van sy dwelmmisbruik \u2013 glad nie \u2019n verhouding het nie. Volgens hom wil hy baie graag nader aan sy dogter lewe. <\/p>\n
\u201cDaai lewe wat ek gelewe het, was nie die moeite werd nie. <\/p>\n
\u201cDaar is mense wat vir jou wil hulp aanbied. Die moment<\/i> wat jy nog in dwelms is, lyk dit almal is gekant teen jou, maar mense is nie gekant teen jou nie, hulle is gekant teen die dinge wat jy doen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boer kan gebel word by 063 136 7877.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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