Campaign against drugs in Turffontein, Kenilworth and Rosettenville
The march particularly focused on reversing the profound negative impact of long-standing and devastating drug trafficking and related criminal activities in the community.
TURFFONTEIN, Kenilworth and Rosettenville streets were shut down when the City of Johannesburg’s Environmental Health Region F, in conjunction with SAPS, JMPD, CPF and University of Johannesburg, embarked on an anti-drugs awareness march on October 19.
The purpose of the march was to bring awareness of the scourge of drugs infesting the community of Turffontein, Kenilworth and Rosettenville.
The three communities have been experiencing a startling increase of drug trafficking and other related crimes, therefore, the City saw it as a need to call on schools, residents, southern business forums, SAPS and JMPD to march against drugs.
Local school learners came in numbers holding their placards with different messages of doing away with drugs.
The march started at Rotunda Park all the way to Geranium Street in Rosettenville ending back at the park. Participants kept on chanting ‘away with drugs’ throughout the march.
The steering organiser Shalin Bidassey-Manilal, an environmental health lecturer, said, “The main reason of this march was to educate users and non-users about the negative effects that drugs have on individuals and to enable the community to reject illicit drugs.”
Kenilworth SPAR provided participants with food and beverages for their endeavour.
“This event has grown bigger every year. Environmental Health did a survey and from those results we were able to establish that there are an enormous amount of drug users, which may lead to prostitution and human trafficking. So this march hopefully sent the message to users to stop what they are doing,” said Andrew Kruger, environmental health operational manager.
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