A lucrative drug trade route is flooding South Africa with heroin, which the government and law enforcement agencies are ill-equipped to deal with. IOSNewsSA
A lucrative drug trade route is flooding South Africa with heroin, which the government and law enforcement agencies are ill-equipped to deal with. These findings were revealed in a policy report released by Enact, an organisation that monitors and develops responses to transnational organised crime on the continent, on Thursday.
“It is true that with intensified focus by Tanzania, the trafficking has been displaced to Mozambique which feeds the SA market mainly via land borders through Swaziland and directly from Mozambique.” “Heroin is still the grandpa of all drugs, but it is cut with all sorts of rubbish to make it more affordable.
Author of the report, Simone Haysom, said: “South Africa’s heroin crisis is extremely serious and is taking a heavy toll on communities.” The southern route has become more significant because of an increase in opium production in Afghanistan, lax law enforcement in east Africa, and a clamp down on the other routes.This heroin crisis is affecting poorer communities the most, the report found, with many people subjected to extreme violence from gangs competing for control of drug markets.“People have described patrol vans arriving at drug-selling points twice a day for small cash injections,” said Haysom.
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