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B-Metro Reporter
AS the Vuzu parties season starts, after schools closed this week, it has emerged that the cartels are employing various means to avoid police scrutiny and turn school children into addicts.
Vuzu parties are wild affairs where school kids take dangerous drugs and engage in unprotected group sex.
They are usually organised and hosted by older people who take advantage of vulnerable, intoxicated children.
School children who spoke to B-Metro literally laughed at police.
“Cops are wasting resources on a wild goose chase,” a schoolgirl said.
“This is the age of the internet. We no longer meet physically to organise our parties and we no longer use fixed venues. Organisers arrange a kombi with tinted windows, we pile in and drive around town enjoying ourselves until we are done.”
The internet has christened the new version of Vuzu parties “Mjeje Parties.”
“Only people who can keep a secret are invited.
“We know the day and time when a party will be held but we never know the venue or pick-up place.
“We just stay ready.
“On the day of the party we get a message from a foreign number and get picked up. The police will never catch us,” boldly declared a teen from a boarding school in Matabeleland South.
The school children insisted they were having “harmless fun” but adults were overreacting.
“We are grown up and we are clever in our own ways. Nobody forces us to go to these parties. We know how to protect ourselves even when we get drunk.
“Besides, we only do this three or four times a year. It is our way of unwinding from the stress of attending endless lessons every day.”
However, a dark side to the seemingly innocent parties was revealed by a 22-year-old man, who is now battling drug addiction, after he was introduced to dangerous substances at Vuzu parties while still at school.
“I started attending Vuzu parties about seven years ago when I was in Form Three.
“Drugs like crystal meth, marijuana, alcohol and sex flowed freely there.
“We were having the time of our lives. I think organisers of these parties keep track of us.
“I realised I could no longer do without crystal meth and alcohol when I was in Form Five. Someone contacted me and they started selling them to me,” said the man, who requested anonymity.
He added:“I dropped out of school and my dream of becoming a pilot went up in smoke.
“At one time my family kicked me out after I started selling household property to feed my habit.
“I have been in and out of rehabilitation a number of times but every time I find myself returning to this destructive habit,” he said.
