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 What stands between many South Africans and a better life is the chemical warfare against our youngsters 

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"Can we mobilise South Africans across the country... can we make a call on people to identify the drug dealers?," he said in Johannesburg.

Manuel, who heads the National Planning Commission, said drugs were causing the destruction of families and of communities.

"What stands between many South Africans and a better life is the chemical warfare against our youngsters."

Manuel was speaking at event to mark the fifth anniversary of the Crime Line anonymous tip-off service, run by the police and Talk Radio 702.

He said problems with drugs were not limited to their consumption and sale.

"It's about the destruction of families...theft in the street, theft in the neighbourhood.

"Nothing and nobody is allowed to have any possessions and everybody is caught in that downward spiral," he said.

Drugs caused warfare against youths and gangsterism.

"We will fail unless we get to the root of it," he continued.

He said people spoke of crime affecting potential foreign direct investment, but the effects were closer to home.

"The first targets of the petty gangsters in townships are those who have pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and have invested in a small medium or micro enterprise," he said.

He recommended that to mark former president Nelson Mandela's birthday on July 18, people should disclose the names of drug dealers.

The police could not be left to "fight the war" alone, he said.

Earlier, national police commissioner Riah Phiyega lamented the slaying of five police officers since she took office less than a month ago.

"One slain police officer is one too many."

She said she spent time over the past weekend with a family in the Eastern Cape whose policeman son had been shot and killed while trying to make an arrest.

"It gave me a different picture of the seriousness the police are facing with police killings."

She was convinced South Africans wanted to be part of the fight against crime and saw that communities were willing to help the police. Initiatives such as Crime Line, and the police's Crime Stop, were ways people could stop crime, she said.

Phiyega was appointed on June 12, after her predecessor Bheki Cele was "released" during a controversy over a lease for new police office space.

Earlier, Crime Line co-founder Yusuf Abramjee said: "We need more tip-offs in the community, we need more arrests."

The system had contributed to the arrests of criminals wanted for crimes such as bombing ATMs, possessing illegal firearms and ammunition, and making illegal electricity connections. Escapee Bongani Moyo was apprehended as a result of an anonymous tip-off, he said.

At least 16,800 illegal connections and acts of meter tampering had been thwarted in co-operation with Eskom's "Operation Khanyisa" initiative.

Eighty percent of the tip-offs were drug-related, Abramjee said.

"We need to all unite further and fight the scourge because this evil of drugs is eating right through our community." He appealed to Phiyega to reintroduce specialised units to clamp down on drugs.

Also present was Public Protector Thuli Madonsela.

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Thu May 23 13:14:23 SAST 2013 ::

Jul 10, 2012

MommaC

"can we make a call on people to identify the drug dealers,"

..... and then?
How may times do we hear of a 'well known drug den' in the papers?
Telling the cops where the drug dealers are will just result in the cops getting more protection money.
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Jul 10, 2012

TheRealHumanIsBlack

I say get rid of the nigerians first and South Africa will be better. nxa. Polluting and populating our beloved country, open your eyes they have bred with the local women, in 2 or 3 generations the ANC president will be half nigerian, look at america (Obama half Kenyan) our biggest role model country. nxa
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Jul 10, 2012

Is-it-just-me???

What happened to PAGAD ?
The police concentrated on Pagad and left the drug dealers to have a field day.
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Jul 10, 2012

Candyboy

get rid of the police men & woman who are corrupt and selling us out first....then 90% of the problem will be sorted.....thereafter get the runners on the street....make them spil the beans....and go for the big fish......its that simple.....why they dont implement it is beyond me....!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 10, 2012

CheeseBoy

He recommended that to mark former president Nelson Mandela's birthday on July 18, people should disclose the names of drug dealers.

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here we go again with the emotional blackmail. Please let the old man rest and stop abusing his name at every opportunity even in a context that has nothing to do with Mandela.

People must report drug dealers and crime in the name of justice and not a man who bares the mark of the beast.
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Jul 10, 2012

Candyboy

@CheeseBoy

"People must report drug dealers and crime in the name of justice and not a man who bares the mark of the beast"

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mark of the beast you say......bit harsh dont you think.....?

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Jul 10, 2012

Papage

Where is PAGAD, they delt with Cape Town Drugs some years ago, legitimise them and let them deal with those drug dealers, Police are just scared of them and mostly is Coulered community which is suffering from this Drug thin, Manual is concerned because his relatives are in it.
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Jul 10, 2012

MommaC

CheeseBoy

Tjo! The mark of the beast?
Not his idea doll. I very much doubt he was able to pick out his unique prisoner number
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Jul 10, 2012

S'bo

Dealers prosper with the blessings and protection of the cops in that community. The community gets arrested and harassed by cops whenever the do anything about crime and drugs. Fix the cops first and you can deal with the problem efficiently.

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Jul 10, 2012

CheeseBoy

@Candyboy
@MommaC

when ever I see 4 666 4 I think of the Book of Revelations , sorry for stating the obvious but its right there in everyone face.

Oh and I don't think he chose the number himself, as the book says that mark is given to you.

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