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Hero herdsman helps kids to give drugs the boot in Eastern Cape village

South Africa

Hero herdsman helps kids to give drugs the boot in Eastern Cape village

By Hoseya Jubase

Life on the mean streets, where at night ‘the gangsters start shooting like mad, like they are in a war zone’

South Africa

Life on the mean streets, where at night ‘the gangsters start shooting like mad, like they are in a war zone’

By Shiraaz Mohamed

The white pipe keeps burning: How the Mandrax scourge persists

South Africa

The white pipe keeps burning: How the Mandrax scourge persists

By Richard Chelin for ISS TODAY

Drug Bust Blues: Ever-increasing arrests of people who use drugs helps fuel crime, not reduce it

South Africa

Drug Bust Blues: Ever-increasing arrests of people who use drugs helps fuel crime, not reduce it

By Shaun Shelly