POLICE have destroyed a dagga garden that supplied dagga to pupils of General Smuts High School in Vereeniging, Vaal.
On Friday, 18 November, parents stopped a police convoy and showed officers a house opposite the school where pupils allegedly buy a zol for R5.
When the police went to the house they found a backroom and a dagga garden.
They destroyed the dagga garden.
A parent, Zakes Ncai, told Daily Sun they wait outside the school every morning and search pupils for drugs and weapons because in recent months the school has had serious challenges.
Vereeniging police spokesman Captain Fikile Funda said the police had a successful Operation Okae Molao led by Major-General Zodwa Molefe where they arrested a man selling dagga to schoolkids.
“We also arrested foreigners for illegally connecting Eskom electricity in the Vereeniging industrial site,” he said.
Captain Funda said these suspects will be processed by the Department of Home Affairs and all undocumented foreigners will appear in the Vereeniging Magistrates Court for illegal immigration.
