Taung-Government officials and non-profit organisation representatives in the North West undertook a door to door campaign at Lokaleng in Taung on Thursday to highlight the danger of substance abuse in honour of the late world icon Nelson Mandela who passed on on the Thursday 5 December 2013 in his Houghton home in Johannesburg at 95.

Substance abuse co-ordinator Mfana Tsotetsi said,  borrowing from the late father of the nation Nelson Mandela: “For too long too many people considered the drug problem as a remote
one affecting someone else or occurring somewhere else. The reality, as we all know, is that this problem affects all communities, in particular the youth. If we really want to do something about the threat we will have to act decisively now. To do this we need to stand together and face the problem head-on,” (extracted from the speech delivered by the late stalwart of apartheid Nelson Mandela at the United Nations International Drug Control Programme on Legal Workshop on Sub-Regional Co-operation Against Drug Trafficking on the 14th November 1994).

“This is a fact-finding campaign aimed raising awareness about the knowledge and abuse of substances among community members.” Mfana said, adding that various government departments and entities will on Friday participate in the motorcade and a march to Taung shopping complex. SAPS, local drug action committee, ex-drug addicts and community members will join the march  to demonstrate their stance on substance abuse.

Details of the campaign are as  follows:-

Date: Friday, 13 December 2013
Time : 09h00
Activity: motorcade to start from Taung Hospital through Lokaleng village to Taung complex.
Venue: Taung Complex, in front of Boxer Store.-TDN
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