Bus passengers and street vendors in KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga are living in fear as groups of men rob and steal from them, with allegedly little intervention from the police.
Vendors sell their goods from stalls outside Phola Mall and the Vezubuhle crossing along the R573, a busy corridor between Pretoria and KwaMhlanga.
When News24 arrived at the crossing this week, a group of men congregated behind one of the vendors' stalls. Two of them were injecting themselves with syringes. Two others were smoking joints of what smelled like a mixture of dagga and nyaope. "I don't even smoke a cigarette, but I always have to inhale the smell of dagga and other different drugs. We asked the police to remove these people here, but they ignored us."Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Colonel Donald Mdhluli, told News24 the police had arrested several people for drug possession and other offences at the crossing in the past.
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