Drug edition 2014

[Slideshow]Nyaope addict: I've become an animal

Multimedia | 2014-07-04 13:18:00

Lindokuhle Sobhekwa spent months photographing nyaope addicts. His extraordinary images seek to capture the human side of these people in the grip of addiction.

Tik-tock: Hangberg's meth timebomb

NationalKimon de Greef | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

Keypads, batteries, touch screens, circuit boards, SIM cards, camera lenses, plastic clips. Lance the cellphone repair guy is scratching through an...

Drug abuse or drug use?

NationalAnonymous | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

At first drugs made me euphoric. It was only years later that things began to fall apart.

On the road with heroin smugglers

NationalSean Christie | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

I first met Adam three years ago, in a forlorn place under Nelson Mandela Boulevard, the freeway that snips the City of Cape Town from its port....

Cape Town's rehabs for the rich and infamous

NationalTanya Pampalone | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

The Fix, an addiction and recovery website run out of Los Angeles, covers subjects such as celebrity sex addictions as well as more serious topics...

Snapshots of nyaope destruction

NationalLindokuhle Sobhekwa | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

Since then he's amassed a frightening and powerfully intimate body of work on addicts in ThokozaAt Buhlebuzile Secondary School in Thokoza, where I...

Nyaope's deadly, and addictive, mix

NationalAdrian Ephraim | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

Fire*, the baby-faced hustler, appears grinning in the doorway of a cramped, dank room made of corrugated iron and chipboard. He wears a maroon...

Qoh and gqom: Music and ecstasy mix in Durban

NationalKwanele Sosibo | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

The late Alexander Shulgin, "the godfather of ecstasy", was more than just a Harvard-educated chemist with a penchant for MDMA. Over the course of...

'For our love of dagga we go to court'

NationalAnsie Vicente | 2014-07-04 00:00:00

The media dubbed them the "Dagga Couple", but Myrtle Clarke and Jules Stobbs have made the name their own, proudly carrying on a campaign to have the...