Thread by @savndaniel

I shall be sharing my thoughts on the involvement of South Africans in drugs in South Africa, and other parts of the world.

I must warn upfront that the things I am going to share, are by no means triggered by hatred, but the need to set the record straight.

You will discover that despite the involvement of South Africans living abroad in crimes (including drugs), their host country never labeled the 'whole' of South Africans 'criminals, neither did they resort to 'killing' them. The instrument of the law was invoked to address it.

We are agreed that South Africa has been warmly welcomed into the international community (of which Nigeria played a role) and is, in turn,
open to the world. The benefits of this recently achieved status include increased investor
interest, more tourism et al.

The growing presence of illicit
drugs in SA is indirectly a result of the dramatic increase in the number of international flights to the country, sheer laziness on the part of the locals, refusal to embrace education by the locals, refusal to work and, the love for crime.

It is in the character of the average South African to be a lover of violence, crude and crime. There was a time a study of attitudes, towards alcohol and drug abuse in an urban black community in
KwaZulu-Natal showed how the average South African loved drug trafficking.

In the 14 February 1997 issue of the New Nation, Jennifer Wild, an
advocate based in KwaZulu-Natal, reported that "[k]ey elements in the South African military,
police, and foreign affairs department of the apartheid regime have created an organised
crime syndicate....

When it comes to drug trafficking in SA, South Africans are major stakeholders in the crime and drug syndicate. In Cape Town, police corruption is of major proportion, and it is believed that some of this corruption has stymied the success of some of their
investigations.

Even in the South African police system, is being manned by drug dealers; they have infiltrated SAPS ranks and government institutions, and are currently assisting the international organised crime syndicates and trafficking cartels by providing legal documents and permits.

It is common knowledge amongst South Africans, that there is gross dissatisfaction about the [legal] system operating in South Africa. It has nothing to do with Nigerians living in South Africa.

Therefore, South Africa has a very weak policing System.

In July 1996, Assistant Commissioner C J D Venter of SAPS estimated that, there
were 136 drug syndicates, 112 vehicle-related syndicates, 85 commercial/fraud rackets, and
171 diamond and gold-related syndicates in South Africa.

These syndicates are all South African owned!

South Africa emerged as a major transhipment point for trafficking in the early 1990s after the
transition to democracy ended international isolation. Cocaine from Latin America transits
through to Europe, and heroin from the Far East passes through South Africa on to Europe

and the US.45 During the political transition in the country, Chinese triads saw South Africa as
'virgin' territory and came to exploit it.

According to SAPS Colonel Raymond Dowd, the
triads specialise in smuggling abalone, drugs, prostitution, credit card fraud, extortion, ivory
smuggling, the importation of illegal immigrants and import/export tax evasion.

South Africa, along with Namibia, Kenya, Swaziland, Angola, Tanzania and Uganda are now
on the major cocaine trafficking routes.

The majority of Nigerians in South Africa are there legally and, not involved in the illicit drug
trade, but as a result of a few, the Nigerian community is wrongly seen as the source of the drug problem.

Accepting that the Nigerians are currently less than welcome in South Africa, an interesting
evolution in the South African illicit drug dealing market can be hypothesised.

The Nigerian (drug) dealers cannot readily approach an SAPS officer with the aim of
corrupting him or her, but a fellow South African possibly, known to the officer, may have a much better chance. This is what most South Africans have failed to see.

South Africans who are successfully working as couriers use their
knowledge to facilitate trafficking activities. This is a fact. And Nigerians have nothing to do with this.

The use of drugs, known as dagga in
South Africa, dates back to the 15th century
AD. Arab as well as Persian and Indian
merchants are reported to have been
responsible for its spread along the eastern
coast of the African continent in the 13th
century.

By the 15th century, Swahili
merchants in East Africa and some Bantu
tribes in Central and Southern Africa co-operated in bringing the plant to Southern
Africa where it was later also cultivated. Cannabis gained in popularity in the 18th and
19th century (OGD 1996a).

In 1928,
authorities in South Africa introduced the first
drug legislation concerning cannabis. Historically, the controlled use and
consumption of cannabis among the African
population was ubiquitous throughout
Southern Africa.

Cannabis
was an integral part of the culture of traditional communities. Strict rules and values governed the circumstances under which it could be
used. Availability was usually controlled by
tribal elders.

However, in the context of a modernising, increasingly urbanized society,
where traditional community controls are
breaking down, the use of cannabis has now
become the domain of the younger user and
the poly-drug user.

In South Africa, cannabis
use is now often associated with alcohol and
mandrax use. Over the past few decades
cannabis use has also gained in popularity
among all ethnic groups.

In the latest incident, 29-year-old Deon Cornelius, a South African, who was
arrested for drug smuggling in Malaysia two years ago, lost his
appeal against his death penalty conviction.

He was
arrested after he was found in possession of a laptop bag containing 2kg of methamphetamine when he landed at Penang
International Airport on October 4, 2013. Cornelius claimed to have
been handed the bag by a man in Penang.

A South African woman, was arrested in India on suspicion of drug trafficking last
month. She allegedly claimed to be seven months pregnant but
officials found that her bulging stomach was not because of a
baby but due to cocaine capsules, weighing almost a kilogram....

which she had swallowed. It was unclear what had since happened
with her case. 

Foreign media reports that a South African was among three
people who were arrested at the Tbilisi International Airport for
allegedly bringing large quantities of drugs into Georgia.

The group
was alleged to have been caught with 4kg of cocaine and 14kg of
marijuana. This had been the second South African to be arrested
at the same airport for drug smuggling within a number of days.

Also in September, Kenyan media reported that a South African
woman was caught with cocaine weighing almost 4kg in a
hidden compartment in her suitcase. The woman's passport
revealed that she had travelled from Sao Paolo, Brazil & flew to
Addis Ababa before connecting to Nairobi

South African police officer, Sergeant Busisiwe Zungu was
arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly trafficking
drugs. It was unclear what type of drugs she had been caught with
but it was understood that she had since been released and had
returned to South Africa.

South Africans living in Hong King were not demonised. They were not killed. The Government of Hong Kong only set its law to motion.

In 2011, Janice Bronwyn Linden, who had been caught in
possession of drugs in China, was executed. The 35-year-old had
been arrested in 2008 and was found in possession of 3kg of
crystal methamphetamine (tik) in her luggage. She was convicted
of drug smuggling in 2009.

Busisiwe Manesseh Ndlovu was well-known in the Emjindini community and the news came as a shock to her family.

A local woman was arrested in Istanbul, Turkey, for allegedly trafficking drugs.

A high-ranking security liaison for El Al and a former Shin Bet official were arrested on suspicion of smuggling large amounts of cocaine into Israel on El Al planes.

South Africans:

Two teenagers South Africans appeared in court charged with slavery offences. The 17-year-olds were accused of grooming three girls to sell heroin and cocaine. They are the first juveniles in Britain to face a crown court over modern slavery.

Hello Tweeps,

Use some help with the link below to see how South Africans run very think drug cartels in South Africa: lockedup.co.za/news-flash?sta….

My submission is that South Africa(ans) may have advanced structurally, but it is still a primitive society.

The problem of South Africa is one of years of neglect, effect of apartheid, laziness, frustration as a result of poor and/or inefficient Government, and long years of drug abuse.

A country where citizens take laws into their hands to address issues, is a failed one.

South Africa is dogged by three social evils, namely, high crime rate, inequality and poverty, caused by South Africans. There have been claims that poverty promotes criminal activity in South Africa. Every South African is aware of this basic truth.

#SA has undergone numerous policy changes since the democratisation in 1994, most policies were targeted at redressing previous harms that were created by the apartheid system.

Despite these policies, crime has continued to rise with poverty showing its impact on the youth.

Poverty, ethnic heterogeneity and residential mobility has weakened social controls and undermine the willingness of communities to control their members, in South Africa.

This situation in South Africa can be exacerbated by a lack of family stability. Again, of concern is that when social controls are undermined, it becomes harder to control crime. This is the major problem with South Africa. Nigerians are not responsible for the woes there.

SAPS, in 2016, pointed out that most drug-related crimes in South Africa were committed by uneducated South African youths.

They also noted that other factors influencing criminality in SA included the poor education status of the South Africans, and parental occupation....

Similarly, children of parents in the lowest income decile are said to have a high propensity to commit crime compared with their peers in the fifth decile.

Furthermore, most black South Africans are in poverty, as a result, we expect them to be contributing a sizeable amount of crime in SA. Why they choose to falsely accuse Nigerians of the things they do, is overwhelming.

Poverty and inequality in South Africa is ethnic-driven. Therefore, it is surprising that drug-related crimes are more prominent to non-white races, where poverty is mainly concentrated. This is a known truth in South Africa. Again, Nigerians are not responsible for this.

South Africa has a notably high rate of murders, assaults, drug trafficking, rapes and other violent crimes, committed mostly by Black South Africans.

In South Africa, violence is seen as a necessary and justified way of resolving conflict, and South Africa's males believe that coercive sexual behavior against women is legitimate. This is a known fact.

South Africa's Criminal Justice Budget was subject to plunder by corrupt police officials at least during the period from 1997 to 2017. And even now.

South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape in the world, with some 65,000 rapes and other sexual assaults reported for the year ending in March 2012, or 127.6 per 100,000 people in the country.

These crimes are committed mostly by Black South Africans.

In the Nyanga , Mitchells Plain, Delft , and Bishop Lavis townships and suburbs of the Western Cape, gang violence is tightly connected to rates of murder and attempted murder, carried out by black South Africans.

The government has been criticised for doing too little to stop crime. Provincial legislators have stated that a lack of sufficient equipment has resulted in an ineffective and demoralized South African Police Service.

This is a known fact to South Africans.

The truth of the matter is that Black South Africans are ashamed of their own shadows.

Even the white South Africans engage in drug trafficking, but you'll never hear or see the Black Africans attack them. And they know why they cannot.

I am armed with evidence. My thread is not one of speculation. Nor some pub house inspired junk. It is most unthinkable to say that South Africans don't engage in rape, crime and drug trafficking.

Take a walk through the streets of South Africa, and you'll be convinced.

The average preoccupation known and acceptable to an average South African, is crime.

I am not saying there are no bad Nigerians in South African, but blaming and killing innocent Nigerians for crimes committed mostly by South Africans, is cruel.

The structural developmental strides recorded in South Africa, is as a result of 50 input from foreigners.

99℅ of Nigerians in SA have papers, and are engaged in legitimate trade.

Why label the entire nation as criminals, when you're the very cause of your problems?

If and when I have such luxury of a time, I shall do a thread on why Black SAns, will never attack White SAns involved in drug trafficking, crime, rape and car hijacking.

I shall also disclose how the SAn Economy is being controlled by the White South African and foreigners.

For those erroneously accusing Nigerians living in South Africa. Kindly watch this! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

TOTAL NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Zimbabwe 649,385
Mozambique 381,386
Lesotho 312,537
Namibia 174,043
United Kingdom 123,764
Malawi 102,327
Germany 93,660
Zambia 92,075
Swaziland 87,362
Botswana 69,160
Angola 65,716
DR Congo 50,340
Portugal 44,925

India 39,907
China 38,684
Italy 38,515
Netherlands 33,217
Congo 32,497
Somalia 30,847
Nigeria 27,326
Kenya 27,143
Ireland 19,989
United States 16,713
Pakistan 16,517
Poland 16,276
Tanzania 15,823
Greece 14,912
Mauritius 14,043
Belgium 13,128
France 12,506

Australia 11,898
Ghana 11,013
Burundi 10,822

Source: @UN (2017)

Cc: Ubong Kingsley-Udoh
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"But for some reason, Nigerians are the ones taking all the jobs in South Africa. Absolutely ridiculous."

This figures on population were brought to my attention by UKU.