Daily Voice 2024-06-10

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy from Elsies River was found high on cocaine, raising alarm about the spread of the drug among children on the Cape Flats. Leonsdale ward councillor Franchesca Walker says community workers who tried to assist the boy were left dumbfounded when he tested positive for four types of drugs, including cocaine. While coke has been a popular drug in larney communities, arrests in Mitchells Plain and Langa have shown a cheaper variant is being sold. Walker says she became aware of the situation when the boy’s worried ouma approached her for help after the child went missing last week. She explains: “I searched and searched but could not find him. While working in a different part of Leonsdale, the community workers spotted him and I tried to speak…