The police and criminal justice system continue with a punitive approach to fight illegal drug trade, targeting poor black users in particular

Research finds women and girls act as recruits, drug dealers and armed gangsters in the ‘deeply ingrained’ gang culture in the Western Cape

Puffing away on nicotine is unhealthy and socially no longer acceptable, but people do struggle to give it up

Dr Wouter Basson risks losing his licence should a hearing find him guilty of making Mandrax, Ecstasy and drugs used to sedate SADF prisoners.

Two tik addicts who doused a woman with petrol before setting her alight in an argument over a cellphone have each been jailed for 24 years.