Schools drug raids lead to 18 arrests
Early-morning drug raids on four schools across Tshwane led to the arrest of 18 pupils and the detention of six minors after they were found with high levels of single and combination drugs in their systems.
Yesterday’s raid, which was conducted by the Tshwane Metro Police in conjunction with the South African Police Service, saw the police conducting random urine tests on high school pupils in Mamelodi and Soshanguve as part of Tshwane executive mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa’s bid to root out drugs in city schools.
The member of the mayoral committee for safety and security, Terence Mashego, said: “The numbers are alarming and are an indication of a terrible situation that exists.”
At Mamelodi High School, six pupils who tested positive for marijuana, were detained and the principal was instructed to call their parents to find a way to deal with them.
At Modiri Technical School, 18 pupils, all older than 18, tested positive and were handed over to the police.
The pupils were taken to the Mamelodi West police station and were expected to receive bail and be released in the custody of their parents.
At J Mahlangu High School, 28 randomly tested pupils tested positive for substances, while 15 tested negative. Of the 28, 22 had smoked marijuana, five heroin and one had taken ecstasy before school, said Mashego.
A further raid was conducted on Hlomphanang High School in Soshanguve where 24 of the 35 pupils who tested positive for drugs, had traces of marijuana in their urine and 11 had smoked heroin.
Mashego said it was the police’s responsibility to assist pupils. “We have a responsibility to assist (them). If we fail to do so we will be failing to take care of the future of this country. These are the future leaders of the country and we must take them away from drugs.”
“The metro police will not only be coming here for drug inspections. They will be coming to assist the school to deal with illegal activities that are taking place around it, and to protect the school from these activities,” said Mashego.
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JUST an hour before the clock struck midnight to mark Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday, a group of men went around defacing direction boards bearing the former president’s name.
The six whites went around Nelson Mandela Drive in Pretoria at about 11pm replacing the Nobel peace prize winner’s name with that of convicted murderer Clive Derby-Lewis.
Derby-Lewis is one of the two men who were convicted of killing former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani.
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Ndou said the men, aged between 25 and 38 years, were charged with malicious damage to property and would appear in the Pretoria magistrate’s court today.
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