Nyaope addicts smoking cremated people’s ashes?
Various publications have reported the theft of boxes containing the ashes of cremated people.
A recent incident, in which the ashes of a loved one were stolen from a local family, has alerted the News to a new trend that is starting to surface – nyaope addicts allegedly stealing dead people’s ashes to mix with the drug and smoke.
On Tuesday, 6 June, Eileen du Toit mother’s ashes were stolen from the bedroom closet, where they had been kept since her mother died approximately a year and a half ago.
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They are so traumatised by this event that they have decided to sell what Eileen had believed to be her dream home.
“You don’t feel safe anymore, you feel violated. My mother lived with us in this very house, it’s very difficult,” said Eileen.
Even though this form of reckless behaviour is relatively new, various publications such as the Daily Sun and Sowetan Live have recently reported that boxes containing the ashes of cremated people are being stolen. Cases of this crime have been registered at Mooifontein Cemetery in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, and at Avalon Cemetery in Soweto.
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According to the Daily Sun, workers at both cemeteries said that many graves had been vandalised, supposedly by nyaope smokers looking for ashes.
However, the Norkem Park Police Station’s spokesperson, Captain Lesibana Molokomme, said that even though a number of cases of graveyard vandalism have been opened, he could not confirm that the perpetrators are nyaope addicts, and when the News contacted numerous police spokespersons in Krugersdorp and Kagiso, including Captain Appel Ernst, spokesperson for the West Rand Cluster, they said no crimes of this nature had been reported as yet.
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