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Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre dealing with drug addicts’ crisis
By Yonela Kulati
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| Drug nyoape ( image from BesinessTech) |
Drugs are one of the issues that Cape Town is facing. Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre was open in 1985 due to the high rise of drugs addicts. They have been around for long time. It is a place where they talk about drugs. There are three branches of it in different locations including, Observatory, Mitchells Plain, and Atlantis. Cape Town Drug Counselling Center was built because they had a mission and vision out of it. Their mission is to treat and rehabilitate substance users and those directly affected to bring about transformation and recovery and their vision is to transform individuals in a transformed environment.
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| Dagga ( Image from Sowetan Live) |
It is a sad truth that Cape Town is facing a drug abuse issue. The most popular primary drug taken in Cape Town is Crystal meth (Tik) at 28% followed by dagga at 21% and then alcohol at 20%. It is not a secret that drugs have become a problem usually in disadvantaged regions. Substance addiction continues to fuel crime in Cape Town and endangers the Western Cape’s social fabric. The publication of crime figures shows that the issue is becoming worse. The usage of drugs by young people is a worry. In a young person’s developing years there are two high-risk phases for substance misuse, namely between the age of 13 and14, when a person is transitioning from late adolescence to early adulthood, where physical puberty changes occur.
According to a study from Cape Town, adolescents initially experiment with either alcohol or cigarettes, then dagga(cannabis), and the last inhalants. The drugs that they are using they have different names, there are different names from each community. One of the Woodstock community members has confirmed that indeed according to his knowledge the most used drug is dagga and tik and it is mostly used by school kids he added by saying they even have a spot of smoking these drugs.
Except in the Western Cape at 29% and EC at 16%, there were little admissions to treatment for MA (Tik) as a primary substance of abuse. Although Tik is still the most often reported primary by patients in the Western Cape. The ratio slightly dropped from 37% in 2015 for patients that are under 20 years old. Substance abuse was significantly from 17% to 9% in 2016. While there is 42% in Western Cape of patients across sites that are undergoing treatment. Only 1% of patients overall had used ecstasy.
The South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU) has reported that between July and December 2016, the 33 specialised treatment facilities involved in the project in the Western Cape indicates that tik, cannabis, alcohol, and heroin combined for 91% of all admission. Which may be shocking news to some people, but it is the reality. People have given their selves to drugs like there is no tomorrow. They are using their last cents to get drugs which later leads to stealing because they want money for their fix. The sad thing is that the increase in drug abuse also increases the level of crime. Some people are doing crime that they will never do if they are not under the influence of drugs. People can say all sort of things, but drugs abuse is not a option for your problem. Some people tried to quit but they failed and today they are regretting why in the first place they used drugs. Other people loss their dignity over drugs, some loss their families, friends, jobs, lifetime opportunities.
“Drugs affect every resident, community, and business in Cape Town, not just those are addicted or abusing drugs” said City of Cape Town. Some people get into drugs because of peer pressure without considering the long effect of them. F or instance dagga has long effects of memory loss, learning problem, hallucination, and delusions. As for heroin also known as (dope, skunk) has the effect of liver disease, collapsed veins, sores, heart complication and misuse can lead to brain damage or death. Mandrax known as (buttons, flowers) lead to weak immune system, convulsions, breathing becomes lower which later leads to respiratory failure. It is said by the WHO that drug abuse minimizes people’s life spend.
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| Staff members of Observatory Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre ( Image from CTDCC website) |
This is where Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre assists with their caring staff members from different branches. The Observatory branch has long been a champion in the field of substance use. To ensure their effective service it maintain stability under the conservative framework. In their Observatory branch in their staff members they have, Alide Lovw (office administration assistance), Fairuz Mustapa (clinical manager / senior social worker), Grant Jordine (Director), Janine de Jongh (general worker), Mogamat Sedik (social worker), Olwethu Malolengwe (social worker), Pumzile Ngondo (social worker), and lastly, they have Viviene Ewers (receptionist).
Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre offers three types of services namely, treatment, prevention, and families and Drugs. They regard their NGO as an outpatient Centre that provides confidential assistance to individuals and families that are experiencing problem with drug abuse. In their outpatient program people continue to participate in their regular activities. As result you must deal with the situation on your feet as an outpatient. Despite the help that you may get from your loved ones, friends, and staff, you still have lot of responsibility. They are the only outpatient Centre in South Africa to empirically evaluate their treatment services.
The service that counselors provide are varied. The counselor’s job is to evaluate the client’s requirements and problems in order to create an effective treatment plan. Schools have referred lots of clients to them. Most of the time, these people are upset at being compelled to enter rehab, however as time goes by, they begin to understand that they are doing it for their own advantage.
“If someone does want to make commitment then we encourage them to commit to a six-week program as a start. They will have roughly three appointment a week, with a counselor, one session with a group and then one lecture. Optional services include Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, Arts and Drama therapy. We also have a medical Doctor and a Psychiatrist” CTCDC mention that in their website.
They charge a R100 per week, but these fees do not include drug test which must be purchased separately. The good thing is that even if you have financial problems, they do not shut their door on your face you van still attend their sessions. Amazing thing is that they have sponsors including, Social Development, National Lotters Commission, Western Cape Community Chest, Western Cape Government, and City of Cape Town.
The good thing about Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre their appreciate their patients and respect them. One of their recovering patients said that “they have professional staff with the ability to make the most addicts feel like participating in the group and lectures are welcoming”.
If you are around Cape Town and you feel like you want a change from being a drug addict to a clean person. You can simply contact the nearest branch for you.
Observatory
021 447 8026
WhatsApp- 073 755 1913/ 063 087 2435
Email info@drugcentre.org.za
Mitchells Plain
021 397 0103
WhatsApp- 073 875 0548
Atlantis
021 571 7180
WhatsApp- 063 247 2918
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Will ANC able to lead in 2024 naltional election?
By Yonela Kulati
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| Photo from Soweten Live |
2024 National election is around the corner and people are worried about their leading party which is ANC. There are many developments that deserve serious study even while it is evident that the most important question between 2021 and 2024 elections whether the ANC will be able to maintain its current level of support.
Things may not be the same as the previous elections’ national elections. The competition will be harder and tighter. As some people are no longer in trust of politically parties due to lack of service deliveries also lack of truth from politically parties.
The ANC score under 50% of voters support in the 2021 local government elections which means that things will be harder for it in 2024 election. The ANC was followed by the DA which obtain 22% national, the third place was EFF which obtain 10.6 % the fourth there was IFP which was 5.9%.
The ANC vote share plunged to 42% in eThekwini Municipality. “The ANC did poorly across KwaZulu-Natal, the province rocked by the unprecedented looting in July 2021. The party’s support in KZN tanked from 57.7% in 2016 to 41.44% IN 2021 as the Inkatha Freedom Party staged a comeback in what is traditionary its strongest province. On overage, support for the ANC across the eight key metros declined by about 7%”, BER said.
While on the other hand Mabe share some motivating words. “When you into a coalition, it does not mean that you are a lesser government, it only means that you have spoken to parties that share some aspiration and ideals and have agreed to constitute a government who will be able to deliver service to our people. At the end of the day, political parties exist for one reason and that is better the lives of our people”, Mabe said
Sunday, May 22, 2022
WHY BLOGGING IS IMPORTANT FOR STUDENT JOURNALISTS
BY Yonela Kulati
Blogging as a student journalist will help you become a better journalist and get work.
A blog is beneficial to both the writer and the reader. Writing a blog early from as a student Journalist will help you improve your skills as a journalist in every way.
You'll improve your writing, research, investigation, skepticism, listening, communication, and editing skills.
If you devote yourself fully to blogging, you will improve in all aspects of the Internet. On this, I can speak from personal experience. Furthermore, you must be able to write for the Web if you want to work in journalism after graduation.
The good things about blogging as a student Journalist is that you learn at an early age to speak for others and it is also teaches speaking the truth and revealing the truth which can also be significant to the community.Yes, you can make a difference in other people's lives by creating a blog.
Whatever you're talking about, or how unusual your circumstance is, there's always the possibility that someone else is facing a similar problem, difficulty, or situation.
Your blog postings may assist readers cope with a terrible occurrence, inspire them to try something new, and/or make a decision to enhance their lives on an intellectual or emotional level.
As you blog as student Journalist it help you to boost knowledge and life experience, the more you blog the more you are exposed to reality world of journalism. Blogging is important for student journalists because it help to hone your writing skills as a journalist since writing is a very valuable skill in journalism, as you blog more frequently you will notice that you are paying more attention to word choice, sentence structure, tone and copywriting. Blogging can offer new opportunities for you as student Journalist, it may help you to get job because people desired what you write about and inspired them. Blogging helps a student Journalist to gain more self confidence as he/ she constantly blog.
In this video I'm demonstrating what I am willing to achieve with my blog.
Monday, April 18, 2022
REVIEWING THE REVIEWER BRENT MEERSMAN
By yonela Kulati
A man with many talents, Brent Meersman
Brent Meersman was born in Cape Town. He is a journalist and a Lecturer at University of Cape Town for a semester course in media studies and Journalism Department. His first job was being a photographer at Grahamstown. He writes novel and a collection of short stories. He loves to travel to other countries.
Brent Meersman did a good job while he was writing his review titled Bitten by the food bug , in September 20, 2013. what is so interesting about this review is that he firstly introduced what he does as a person since some people may not know him well some people may know only his name and the only know nothing about what he does do for a living
what I liked about his review is that he perfectly introduced when he started his writing about food and readers appreciating his writing. What is so interesting Is that he fully explains which restaurant he visited at Cape Town as reviewer and how the waiters were acting towards him. As he mentioned that he started just as gastroculture surged globally” it sounded like he's so serious about his work as a reviewer. He does not stick to one place for his review especially reviews about food which is a great thing.
What I like about his review is that he did not compare the restaurant he went to, to each other. He just fully explained his aspirations and expresses his opinion in a correct way I was so impressed by him providing the price so and the food name that he ordered from this restaurant. All in all I would like to say that Brent Meersman Is one of the good example being referred as excellent reviewer.
Confused but content written by Brent Meersman on 16 November 2012. Seemingly Brendon was enjoying himself while he was digging into Italian food. I was so impressed by his explanation while he was explaining the difference between the Italian food that is served in South Africa and the one that is served in Italy. Seemingly the most Italian food served in South Africa is Pizza and spaghetti which sounded so yummy. What I was not impressed with is that he had only one picture maybe if he provided a minimum of more pictures of the food was talking about his review would be more interesting than now.
But I like the fact that at the end of his review he provided the address, and they contact details of the restaurants he was talking about. Regarding anything that Brent discussed In this review I found the information he provided all important which simply shows that he is good in review writing he knows his story even though the Italian food named is so hard to pronounce. His opinion on restaurants at Cape Town that sell Italian food made me to crave for Italian food for the first in my life.
Rethinking the National Arts written by Brent Meersman in July 4,2015. In this article I would say that Brent good work by providing the sub header to firstly let the readers know what he was going to talk about because not all people know about Grahamstown and its festival.
The most impressing part was the cover picture that he provided that was amazing. The way Brent explained how residents of Grahamstown benefits during festival time was so satisfying. The picture he provided was on point, the quality. All in all I think that he perfectly describe Grahamstown with it unemployment statistics.
Reviewing the reviewer Brent Meersman
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| Photo by Brent Meersman |
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Cape Town Tour at Roaland street
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| Roaland Street from upper part. Photo By Yonela Kulati |
Roaland street starts in front of the Parliament where St.Johns Road meets Plein street and end at Central fire station . Roaland street has been around since the since Cape Town earliest days it is not a famous street as other street.
Roaland Street is situated at the East City Precint of Cape Town. It is not a big street that can easily attracts people but once you come closer to it there are so many exciting things about Roaland Street. Roaland mostly consists of arts and design hub with few nice accommodations.
Kimberly Hotel
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| Kimberly Hotel . Photo by Yonela kulati |
It is the oldest pub available at Roaland Street, it has been there since 1895. It has rooms for accommodation at the top floor then on the ground floor there are few bars available and fast-food corner that serves old fashioned drinks at a cheapest price. The hotel sites on corner of Roaland Street and Buitenkant Street.
It is not classified as a five-star hotel but trust me it has great service towards its customers. On the ground floor it also has Barneys Bistro which offers yummy food for a quick bite maybe for a launch you can grab something to eat there at affordable price.
Besides there is a good security that is working for 24/7 hours for the safety of customers. The Kimberly Hotel is always filled with amazing people mostly tourist and students since it is near student accommodation which is for Cape Peninsula University of Technology male students only. It has mini balcony where you can just look view which surrounds you.
CPUT Campus at Roaland where bright future is created
CPUT Roaland Building . Photo By Yonela kulati
Cape Peninsula University of Technology Roaland Campus is a campus for faculty of Informatics and Design. The campus is for IT, photographers, Journalism, multimedia students. The campus work hand in hand with the District Six Campus.
You might see the Roaland building small but once you enter inside it is big with interesting courses offered. Cape Peninsula University of Technology at Roaland street it is just situated just minutes away from the Cape Town Campus.
There are so many universities at Cape Town, South Africa and Cape Peninsula University of Technology is the only University of Technology in the Western Cape province. The university is also the largest university in the province.
Hip Pop Plaza Apartment
Hip Pop Plaza apartment. Photo by Yonela kulati
Hip Pop Plaza apartment is located in Cape Town in the Western Cape region at Roaland street with Parliament and South African Gallery nearby. What nice about this apartment it has free Wi-Fi, free private parking, which is not available at other apartments, coffee maker, microwave, private bathroom where you can rest relax and take your time while bathing.
The nice thing about the Hip Pop Plaza is that it has the balcony where you can see a beautiful view of the famous mountain in Cape Town which Table Mountain. Amazing thing about the Hip pop plaza is that there are nearby interesting places which you can visit while you are residing at Hip Pop Plaza.
These places include South African Jewish Museum, District Six Museum, Art Gallery, Acquarium, Night Clubs, and Restaurant. If you are around Cape Town and you are looking for an accommodation at Roaland street I would say, go with Hip Pop Plaza because it is a nice place to stay. With Hip Pop Plaza you would never go wrong, their service is great, they are caring as much as they can just to make their customers happy.
Central fire Station our heroes
Central fire Station upper Roaland street. Photo By Yonela Kulati
The fire station service is unique in providing for the whole community a form of protection that is beneficial to all. It does not serve any one group of people to the detriment of others, nor can it be manipulated to further political ends. It is an organization with a high developed sense of honor, which command the respect or the people it serves.
The central fire station at Roaland Street was built in 1932. The fire central firefighters have done great job in the past years. They attend cases as soon as get an alert.
These firefighters are our heroes in many ways. The way they are so dedicated to their work is amazing.
Food Lovers
Food Lovers market.Photo by Yonela Kulati
A place where you can grab your fresh fruit and vegetables while you are at Roaland Street. Everything of Food Lovers it Is always fresh, you will never be disappointed.
Take a ride and visit Roaland Street you will never regret yourself for exploring a new street that you have never been before. There is nothing wrong with trying new things.
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