admcyp
I was raised by a single parent. Fathers are very strict, but I didn’t have a father and took advantage of this fact. I allowed the devil to deceive me, to take control of my life and to use me in a way that would suit him and fulfil his plans. His influence in my life lead me to make many wrong decisions.
I started to steal to support my growing addiction to Tik (Crystal Meth) and Mandrax (Buttons). I ran away for home for good and was being used by gangsters to sell drugs. I started to turn more and more to criminal activity. It came to a point where the police were out looking for me and I realized I needed to escape this life.
I started drinking alcohol from as early as ten years old. It all started on the so-called “Big Days” over the festive season but soon included even the ‘small days’.
In the eight years leading up to 2014 I sold all my possessions, was in prison four times, lived on the streets for up to one year at a time, was involved in house-breakings, was beaten by the community forum and had to eat from dust bins. I lived worse than an animal!
?I have lived a life of sin for the past 23 years. I have done quite a bit of prison time for things that I shouldn’t have done as I was a slave to drugs and a slave to Satan for far too long.
?I woke up one morning in a dog’s kennel, my feet had been hanging out all night in the cold and the dog was lying on top of me. This helped me to realise that I had really hit rock bottom.
As yesterday was Youth Day, we as youth of South Africa, who have dreams for our future, appeal to you to give serious consideration to, and to act upon the information and concerns we have put forward. It would be regrettable if we in the future need to refer back to this day, ’17 June 2014′, a day in parliament, where concerns of your youth were not considered important and therefore not addressed.
It is with great shock that we, as the Concerned Young People of SA read that the Cabinet and the Central Drug Authority (CDA) have agreed to use ‘harm reduction’ within its new National Drug Master Plan of 2013-2017. Even though the term ‘harm reduction’ looks well on paper and in theory…
?As an organization based in South Africa, we, together with the rest of the world, are shocked into attention at the exigency in Chibok Nigera, that, till today has been left unattended. Since our establishment, in 2009, we have been trying to bring to our Government’s attention that human trafficking, though illegal, is ubiquitous in our country and the rest of Africa.
?It is with grave concern that we read recent articles in the media detailing government’s decision to commence with a programme to distribute condoms to learners in South African schools. We are left wondering whether any time was spent investigating the root causes of teenagers becoming sexually active and falling pregnant …