New Partnership Sees Mainstream Agriculture Joining Drive to Protect and Promote Cannabis Landraces
The African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) has joined forces with the African Heritage Cultural Trust, SACHIDA and other organizations to protect and promote local landrace genetics. This comes as new regulations define indigenous plants as agricultural crops so that small holder farmers can benefit from their economic development.
Labat’s Cannabis Asset Sale is Getting Dizzy: New Buyer Snaps Up Cannafrica for R8 m, All Other Deals Off the Table
Barely a week after Labat announced that it was no longer selling its cannabis assets to Brian van Rooyen’s All Trading Propriety but to initial bidder 64P Investments,, there’s been yet another twist to the tale. A new buyer, African Ntsha Trading Solution, has stepped in and snapped up CannAfrica for R8 million replacing all other offers on the table.
Cannabis Licensing: Crunch Time Coming for Government to Reveal Its True Colours
How Government handles cannabis licensing is one of the single biggest factors that will make or break South African cannabis reform. Currently the only licenses available are for exporting medical cannabis, of which just over 100 have been issued. The way Government accommodates an estimated 900 000 small-scale legacy growers will either level the playing fields or create deep inequality in a future cannabis economy.
Spanish Take on South African Cannabis: One Big Lab Experiment that Everybody is Keeping a Close Eye On
The Spanish online magazine Canamo says South Africa is defining cannabis in its own new way that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. It says what South Africa is more than just a curiosity for the Spanish-speaking world, it’s a living laboratory where new ways of exploring and interacting with the plant are unfolding.
Cannabis Arrests Continue: Police Reform Project Aims to Change SAPS From Within
The Police Reform Project is to take its crusade to the Constitutional Court and has called on all cannabis stakeholders in Gauteng to gather at Constitutional Hill on 27 February 2026. This emerged from the Project Indlela webinar on legacy cannabis communities where there were repeated calls for mobilization against police harassment.
It’s All About Business: Legacy Communities Want an Immediate Halt to Police Harassment and the Freedom to Trade Cannabis Legally
From Western Mpondoland to the West Coast, from the Cape Flats to rural Limpopo, representatives of legacy cannabis communities are in strong agreement on one point: stop the police harassment immediately and allow the commercial trade in cannabis products. This came out of the Project Indlela stakeholder webinar held earlier this week on inclusivity in cannabis reform.
SA Now the Most Corrupt Country in Africa After the DRC
South Africa is second only to the DRC in the Top 10 African countries worst hit by organized crime. ENACT, which released its 2025 survey findings, says SA’s rating places it among the continent’s countries most vulnerable to ‘state capture’, reflecting deep-rooted criminal networks and systemic challenges.
Hemp Now Officially an Agricultural Crop, So Why is SAPS Still Involved in Permit Process?
The requirement that SAPS be part of the hemp permit approval process is constitutionally unsound and should not be part of the amended Plant Improvement Act. The Act defines cannabis for non-medical purposes as an agricultural crop under the control of the Department of Agriculture. So why, then is SAPS still involved?
SACHIDA: New Hemp Regulations are Great, But Grassroots Challenges Still Have to be Addressed
Raising of THC limits in hemp to 2% will make exports more difficult but will spur the development of the local market. This is the view of SACHIDA founding member Cian McLelland, who provides the lowdown on the positives and negatives facing SA industrial cannabis now the new regulations are in place.
The Health and Wellness Consumer Revolution is Dismantling Cannabis Stigma in South Africa
Cannabis is mainstreaming itself through the growing consumer health and wellness market. More people are turning to nature for solutions to the stress of everyday life and cannabis is one component in a broad consumer movement that is turning to non-pharmaceutical and organic alternatives for mental and physical health.