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In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
With the community, the group of theatre-makers and academics created a play that could also serve as a policy brief on what’s missing from the battle to reduce drug use in Durban.
Portugal won the war on drugs by giving up. What lessons can South Africa learn from their approach?
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Head of Urban Futures Centre, Durban University of Technology
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Senior Researcher in Educational Sociology at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Applied Human Sciences, Pietermaritzburg Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal