Cutting Edge | Drug addiction: 07 March 2023 

Thank you for this comment. One of my older brothers is a drug addict and we tried everything under the sun to get him help, heck I even studied psychology in university in order for me to be able to help him. Unfortunately all our attempts at helping him were in vain as he stated he did not want to quit his habits. Right then and there I finally understood what all the mental health professionals have been telling us... HE has to be the one that wants to make the change and seek help. It is sad to see but you cant save someone who does not want to be saved.

The company they keep is toxic for a addict to quit take him from the company he keeps motivate them give them hope and a reason to live for.

Exactly the thing about can't go without out is and alosta being so bad, I was injecting 6xR50 bags back in 2014 moring, afternoon and evening and yes withdraws is not nice, got locked up I HAD NO WITHDRAWALS because my mind nee there was no way to get only withdraw I got I could not sleep, a whole months if *was lucky I would dozer off 5min but that 5min would recharge me totally. Used again when I got released but that was when I realised it is a choice and mental decision, 2 years later I got to the point where I had enouth and stopped. Life has to change if you were a real addict hanging around friends using is a trigger waiting to happen, just bad news or life happens at the wrong time and relapse will happen

@@nombusosobahle5109 no addict will stop if it's not for themselves, they will stop for people but just to please and carry on again, if the decision to stop is not from the person it won't last and SADLY only rock bottom can have that impact, but sadly if a person has always had a hard life rock bottom is just life but for someone who had a life, job ext it usually helps IF THEY STRUGGLE ALOT OR END UP IN JAIL but then again by then only thing that will satisfy them never getting work is getting forgetting wich is something heroin is so capable of giving

If I can't win my mind to wake up at 4am and study...then what about drugs? I have outmost respect for those who recovered. 🙏

I love you a lot...keep fighting❤

Yoh

And it was you own choices that create the problem you were not a victim, it was you making teh choice to stop. I was a dealer 4 years, injected heroin 20 something years, was on meth for 5 years and once I stoped believe the bullshit about always being an addict and being a victim I made a choice a stopped.

@@EgorZA82 you're the man. Thank u again for sharing. I've been on since 2005 til last year. But things are looking up now.

Stay strong random internet stranger

@Sady Ledwaba, the interesting thing is smart people are behind evil deeds

Humans are evil just say it but also everything is your own choice

In most cases people take drugs willingly, it’s them being gullible that lead them into this

@@lifeandtimesofsazi3192 Is that mindset of saying i will never be addicted look now

Mothers are left without children to give them better hope, sad.

You can hear they were doing very well in life 😢. Sadly few of them said i learned from my friend or i was introduced to this by my friend 💔

😢really is heartbreaking

It’s heartbreaking nkosyami. 💔😭

Illegal drugs is used by all kind of people you'll be surprised when in 2020 tot 2024 when I was selling how many business owner used it's insane, with money it's easier to get clean that's the sad part

Where are u based

He is still alive and kicking. Even literally

He has died now.

😢

Feel bad for Him

Unfortunately he died a short while ago

Thanks BM.

I believe his illness plus the drug usage has aged him a lot

I am 41 I wish I could send you my picture and see the difference of a person 1year older than me,even my father at 62 looked younger than him.😥

seriously

​@@hlalelemohale7296 mxm🙄

​@@hlalelemohale7296 me too 41, it surprised me, the guy looked 60 +

I feel you

i think government is giving people drugs deliberately to be able control them

Here it's worse kimoi. If u could see for urself u can either cry or laugh. It's bad. It's blatant. It's public. Meth is on the up now.

Nigerians bro they are big problems to our countries youth

😢😢😢africa is in trouble

Ok. I would like to see u. I live in tasbet park 1. I feature on the documentary on the last segment. Yes the A student. The garage is a Total not a Caltex alright. OK cool.

@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq total rarely go that side it's the garage as you turn of the main road, the garage where there use to be a Spar, there is/was a bar there use to be ours but that's years ago, just on top of the post office there are flats when I was in Reyno Park High School we use to buy our weed there. I'm currently staying in Fransville next to Model Park.

Eish Im heartbroken into pieces 😭😭😭😭😭 . I'm really sorry my dear

So sad that mostly were introduced to this by their friends 😢, does this mean peer pressure overweight the parents rules/teaching?. Are we as parents doing something wrong?

​@@sephiwejoycesithole6118 we maJobe, there is nothing wrong done by the parents. If someone is delinquent, they think their friends know better than their parents. They choose their friends ways than parental guidance.

I’m so sorry, this is really sad.

💔😞

I am happy to tell u that since the airing about 8 or more persons have been taken to a rehab center thanks to the government. We made it happen. We had to.

@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq I am so glad to hear so :) I wish them all the best in their recovery!

If you live in South Africa, you will have experienced how infrastructure has crumbled due to zero maintenance. There's no longer a suburban public railway system running from city to smaller adjacent cities. There's no postal system and the post office buildings are in ruins, homes to the outcasts of society. There is only the pretense of law and order. New privatised projects like the bullet train on the Rand are plagued by overnight vandalism where any kind of high-tech material (fiber-optic cables, metals) is spirited away in the dark. Drunk driving is so prevalent and commonplace as to make freeways a gauntlet of death. The power grid, after years of neglect, is barely functional. It will need re-building from scratch, there's no repairing it. And now, without electricity, the public water system is collapsing impacting fresh water supply AND sewerage systems. It's only a question of time before typhoid trumps AIDS. And why? Government. Rather, the absence of governance. The ANC Government positioned in high office the most inept, incompetant and morally ignorant cadre of Ministers and Administrators. Their sole expertese was/is to distill corruption down to its most profound virulence. It is these officials who, in short order, emptied state coffers and appropriated public funds. Either through quasi-improvement programs, railway acquisitions or simply bald-faced theft, the government exacted wholescale graft draining the financial lifeblood of the economy. One has only to look at Zuma's leadership to see in magnificent display, personal enrichment and absolute defiant corruption. The goverment has done everything it can to endanger and jeopardize the future of ALL South Africans, not just those who struggle with addiction.

how do you know that?

@@Madiela I was at the funeral with the team from SABC to record the funeral and show it on TV that drugs kill.

@@Madiela 15:02 here at my beautiful home 🏡

Amen brother

U are right. Opium can never grow in any area in africa. All heroine is imported. It is truly Unafrican.

U can start by getting hold of me. I am the A student in the video.

@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq thank you, I'll will do so in the near future

I had a dream. I was an A student. In every subject except Afrikaans. So everyone thought that I was clever. Tragedy.

That's me. The A+ student.

Thank u. Ur the only person who has said such nice words. Ur special.

Uxolo torho, askies

💔

A tru friend wouldn't do that

@@pamelajones9658 ok but who is a true friend

He is dying vele..

U were right. He's gone.

He is also late now. He has died. Oupa Mabena.

I'm still clean gugu. Thanks for the comment. Take care.

@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq 🔥keep going strong bro very empowering

​@@thesouthafricanwaterbros-hl1lqnangoku. Ngisahamba nazo my sister. This documentary keeps me motivated to not go back.

I wish to reach that. I'm 1 year in.

Same syringe on 20 people. I was there at the post when that was shot. I was the 'friend' who brought the food.

Why are south Africans saying government this and that always drugs are a communal issue.

@@valentineisraelshabangu4069exactly…am also wondering what people want the government to do coz most of the people start willingly thru “friends”

The government did move quickly. The guys 8 at least that I know are in rehab in nelspruit as we speak. Some are using methadone

lol

Thando actually bought the food. Not the cutting edge crew. I was the one who brought the food but it was edited out on my request. Because I wanted to do my segment at my house with the nice background. 15:00

Amen🙏

No. Tru. Some people have deep Trauma that's to painful to bear😢. That's were it starts. Not Ganja

I smoke weed and I will never smoke something else so it's a choice

These are the people who should be in the workforce, living productive lives and making strides for themselves. At the moment they are literally digging graves for themselves.

This is the actual pandemic!

Same way we have all these programs for the girl child we should also do the same for boys

I wish i can like 100times

It's complicated baba. There's just too many factors. Prevention through actove awareness is the only way. Not to fix. U cant fix this like a car or a phone. Jesus must just return if it's true in the Bible story.

Bro scary 😢

I agree. Especially me.

He died.

Fentanyl (disguised as Percocet) is fueling the opioid crisis in that region, I hope it never reaches this country. Low-grade heroin is destroying our country now imagine what a drug 50 times stronger than heroin would do

I know them Kingston Avenue

Those guys are like Zombies Demons

You point Africans all other fingers pointing at you 👈🏾

Any nationality can be capable of selling that, remember we have all kind of races and nationalities in South Africa so don't pick☝️because it doesn't help the situation and it protects the ones actually doing it which we wouldn't know if we assumed it's only done by certain nationality🤷‍♀️

No Amos. Joyce is right. It IS our african brothers vele. Factsssssss.

Well said. That's deep. How did u know.

I am a medical student, so I see them. They are helpless.

That boy culo is not serious. Speaks well but is not serious If u could see what he's doing.

​@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq Culo has a beautiful name , his mother gave him a beautiful name.

We ourselves did something actually. The sabc did enough by broadcasting us and coming all the way from jozi for us. We called them. After the airing we called the district. Guys are in rehab. It was the whole plan from the start. It was not an event. It was our starting point.

Unfortunately the guy (Oupa Mabena) recently passed on, I to think I grew up right in front of him

Wasn't that meant that youth would study towards that and practice it until they take over? Like don't we have young generation in parliament?

Ur right about the buying drugs for content. Ur wrong about the script. Actually the sabc did us a favor. We called them to shoot us nit the other way round.

Where are u from? U may know me.

I was there when it all happened. I can even pin point everyone who agreed and refused to be on camera plus the guy who sold you the drugs. I was standing right next to y all but you wouldn't recognize me, I just blend lowkey

Wow

No. Jesus died long ago. He just turned water to wine once that's all. He won't nt do nothing that one.

Eish. They 'clean' it with pure tap water. Imagine. And it's so sad cause the local pharmacy refuses to sell needles to all these people. They are literally forced to use maybe 3 needles for 40 of them passing it around. I always bring them needles which I steal from the hospital once a month but it's not enough. Imagine the HIV circulating. Yuk!

I'm In tasbet. U?

Do you think there are any solutions to this pandemic though

To be honest he looks like he might have HIV and they sharing needles with him

Maybe more tight security at schools and put more sports activities, extra murals so that it takes up most of their time alone and when they go home they must get more assignments/ homework e.t.c and government can bring penalty to each saying if you ever quit school without finishing we're coming for you and you'll join any government services training as your punishment can be - zoo,gardening, police, army, clinics and hospitals, waste pickup , sewage, transport e.t.c . I know that's crazy thinking 🙄🤷‍♀️

He has died

Hello zinhle dlamini mugabe. How is sandile? I wanted to say something to u after the airing but I was reluctant because I don't know how involved u want to be. I respect that this is ur job. Do u remember me?

May I ask where did you get your 🕶️frames??...share the details

It's Thando. He's my friend and neighbour. Here is us. 14:40

Hello. Are u in Korea for real?

@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq i was in South Korea for 12 years

Eish boy. Do u know his name though?

Facts. That was me. Thanks for the 'gentleman'. That was a bar! 🔥 🔥 🔥 I think if a parent actually sits you down it can prevent alot. Its more effective than any Awareness Campaign

Yes as a HCW I can see some other symptoms 😭.

He died. He had TB. Ur right.

@@softangler3040 healthcare worker where are u based.?

Sandile didn't have time. It was due for submission in 4 days. Edited in a few hours. We shot this in one day. Zinhle said that that has never done before.

Uqalile uthixo. Uzile apha.

How clever can a person be. Wow. Amagugu. I was thinking that same thing but u put it in words. This is crazy.

Problem is the sellers just give a 'cold drink' to the cops. There is no hope. It's true. There is no solution. Trust me I know.

His 42😢 his not an old man. Drugs aged by 20+ years

@@curvykay6232 I also thought he was old. But 42 is not old At all. But he too sick.

Sadly it's already happening 💔😢in rural areas it's there now😢

Why hate the drug dealers ? Did someone put a gun to ogobandosa head and tell him he must use do drugs ?

18:07

14:40 Me

Thank u. That's what I said. And I meant that. We need to protect ama2000. Now it's crystal meth taking over. Kids are talking to themselves it's scary.

Ur makimg me smile. We also have 'mother' here. She buys food and everything for the guys. Well I was once of the guys. I still call her mother. Funny thing is me and her are the same age. Her name is phindi. 🙏

Very true, its so deadly. Even gambling with numbers.

You are right. Since democracy.

What!?!?

😕 unfortunately that's the least of their worries. Drugs are truly evil

They want to be hiv so they can get ARVs to add it in making nyaope

That's the least of their worries.

You can't be smart like drug addicts and thieves

That culo guy if u could sit with him. U won't believe.

Truly shocking. If u could see where it is positioned u will be even more shocked. It's right in the middle of the shopping center. I'm laughing as I write.

Here is supported by EFF

Like it is in China. But the problem with us is that we have too much democracy and too many rights. U won't believe the latest legislature. Hala at me if u want more info,.

Thank u. It was not slept no by the Nkangala District. After the airing we got so much attention so much that the guys are gone to rehab. 3 at a time. Thanks to our government.

He died. It was shown on a future episode.

That is true.. weed is usually the gateway drug