Eldorado Park community leaders on Wednesday moved to ban hookah pipes in the area’s spaza shops.
Leaders of the Eldorado Park community, who have been camping in tents outside the Eldorado Park police station for 31 days in protest against gun violence and drug abuse in the area, on Wednesday announced a ban on hookah pipes.
“The proposal came as a result of the rampant increase of minor children under the age of 18 using and misusing hookah pipes to smoke various substances, mainly dagga,” an earlier statement released by the community leadership on Wednesday said. “Informal spaza shop owners are instructed to refrain from selling hookah pipes and their accessories, such as flavours, foil, coal, etc, as of the 1st of November. Failure to adhere will lead to the permanent closure of the non-compliant shops,” read the statement.“I have appointed 10 members of the Mayoral Committee [MMCs] who will work with the community. The MEC of health and the MMC of health and social development, Eunice Mgcina, will help us deal with those issues,” Morero said.
She said: “The reality of the city is that we have huge backlogs. To give you an example, our infrastructure backlog in the city stands at R300-billion. I am giving you these figures just so you understand the scale of what we are dealing with.
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