Feb 17, 2018
In a high mood, Thokoza, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013 - photo by Lindokuhle Sobekwa, from "Deep Hanging (Photos of Poverty and Addiction in South Africa)"
Nyaope is a popular street drug that is a cocktail of low-grade heroin, cannabis, and antiretroviral drugs. It was (as it still is) "all the rage with the youngsters in Soweto, Mamelodi, Soshanguve, and Atteridgeville," Black settlements surrounding Johannesburg and Pretoria.
It is also popular in Thokoza, the Black residential neighborhood southeast of Johannesburg where photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa lives. Sobekwa started documenting the rituals associated with nyaope in 2013.
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