The hopes of seven mothers in Eldorado Park, south of Johannesburg, are turning into despair at what they describe as "failed promises" by President Jacob Zuma.
It will be a year in April since the mothers wrote to Zuma, pleading
with him to help them in the fight against drug abuse. The plea prompted
Zuma to visit the area a month later.
At his meeting with
concerned residents, Zuma pledged a raft of interventions to address the
complaints of rampant drug use, crime and ineffective policing.
"Things
went well following the president's visit . but only for about three
months. They soon went back to how they were. If anything, they may have
gotten worse," said Dereleen James, one of the mothers who told Zuma of
their experiences of living with drug-addicted children... Timeslive
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