MEC sends stern warning to drug dealers
Gauteng Community Safety MEC Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane sent out a strong message to drug dealers operating in communities that they will be arrested.
"This space does not belong to you. You are a devil and a devil belongs to hell. You must be burned. If hell does not start here, I will created hell for you," says Nkosi-Malobane.
Nkosi-Malobane is meeting with school principals, the South African Police Service and the local leadership at Riverlea High School in Johannesburg where they will be discussing safety issues at schools in the Sophiatown policing precinct.
A school audit conducted recently indicates gangsterism and substance abuse as main factors and generators of crime in the area.
Parents in Westbury kept their children out of school and protested against crime in the area late last year.
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Nkosi-Malobane says residents should reclaim their communities.
"We need to confront the real problem. The problem is not how to lead this community, it's not the principals, it's not the teachers. The problem is drug dealers and we need to focus our energy on drug dealers," says Nkosi-Malobane.
The MEC the community needs to come together.
"First unify the leaders. That is why we have called the principals. We have realised most of the problems start at school," says Nkosi-Malobane.