kids drug parents to attend vuzu parties

Rumbidzai Mhlanga, Sunday Life Reporter

THE quest to attend the notorious vuzu parties has forced some youths to drug their parents with sleeping tablets, it has emerged.

Concerned Bulawayo residents have since formed a WhatsApp chat group where they discuss issues affecting the youth, among them vuzu parties. One parent, who identified herself as Sister Ross who works in an organisation that deals with youths, said some youths had taken the route of drugging their parents with sleeping pills so as to sneak out of home at night.

“Children nowadays have access to a lot of drugs and some actually volunteer to make tea for their parents so that they drug them and ‘jail out’ as they put it,” she said.

In a meeting held at Brethren in Christ Church in the city centre last Saturday, parents also bemoaned the newly introduced “Chillas” parties, which they said were another version of vuzu parties where under aged children indulge in alcohol and sex. The meeting was also attended by the police and Ministry of Education officials.

Another parent, Webster Sibanda shared the same sentiments with Sister Rose.

“There are drug movements worldwide and children use them without acknowledging long term effects, for example they use drugs to prevent pregnancy, overlooking the fact that it can lead to bareness in the long run,” he said.

Speaking at the same event, Kilton Moyo said society had to embrace the ethos of ubuntu in grooming children.

“Let’s go back to our parenting without government organisations for human rights movements intervening, when adopting those rights let’s take a closer look at them because they have a lot of things that are anti-us as an African society.”