Stop kids attending wild end of term parties: MEC
KZN Social Development MEC Weziwe Thusi has urged parents to stop their children from attending end of term parties where there are drinks and drugs.
|||Durban - Parents have been urged to stop their children from attending end of term parties where teens sometimes binge on drink and drugs.
The appeal was from Social Development MEC Weziwe Thusi on the back of a march against drugs by thousands of pupils on Thursday.
“Do not allow our children to go to these parties when schools close, they must go home, not to these explosions, where they do drugs and drink alcohol. I wish to tell you the consequences of using drugs are very dire to you learners,” she said.
Thusi warned the pupils that a life of drugs and crime would make them a target in their own communities.
“Those who have not done drugs, don’t even go there. Those who have a problem, we are here as the department to help you get out of drugs because there are many bad results from using drugs.
“In 2016 you are faced with a different struggle, a struggle of fighting against drugs.”
“As young people of KwaMashu you must be like those of 1976, we are going to be saying no to drugs, forward with education,” she said.
The march comes after the death of more than seven young people from KwaZulu-Natal - mostly school pupils - who died after consuming what is believed to have been a poison-laced lethal ecstasy drug known as Mercedes.
More than 50 were hospitalised in Durban and Pietermaritzburg as the drug began to spread across the province during the Easter break.
Pupils on Thursday marched from the Zeph Dhlomo High School, where a pupil was killed as a result of the drug, to Mzuvele Secondary School, which has been ransacked by drug addicts over the years.
Congress of South African Students president, Zama Khanyase, urged pupils who were users to change as they were destroying their futures,
“When we leave this programme something must change, you must know the dangers of the drugs.“
“If you were unsure that drugs have a bad impact and that they have the ability to destroy your future, we want you to learn from this programme.
“We want to be able to address this situation so that it will never happen again,” she said.
She told pupils that a life of drugs would lead to crime and eventually death.
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