The City of Cape Towns Safety and Security directorate has made an urgent call on residents to report businesses and individuals who are illegally selling cough syrup and other dangerous medications to children to get high.
Mayco Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says law enforcement officers received information that children as young as seven years- old are buying and consuming cough syrup.
Smith says children who the officers spoke too revealed that the cough syrup that contains codeine is mixed with a fizzy drink and consumed to induce a drug-like state.