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.
New Plant Improvement Act Comes into Force, THC Limit in Hemp Now Officially 2%
Wide sweeping reforms to South Africa hemp regulations have come into effect, unblocking some of the major obstacles to getting the sector going. Under the new Plant Improvement Act, cannabis becomes an agricultural crop and the acceptable THC limit in hemp has been raised tenfold to 2%.
Last Minute Switch of Buyers for Labat’s Cannabis Assets, New Deal Won’t Need Shareholder Approval.
Labat says Brian van Rooyen’s All Trading Propriety has withdrawn its offer for the group’s cannabis assets and that a revised offer has been accepted from 64P Investments for R10 million. In terms of the deal, Labat will not require shareholder approval for the sale as 64P is not deemed to be a ‘related party’
Pharma Corporates Appointing Themselves as the Global Gatekeepers of Cannabis, This is Not Good for Farmers
Cannabis reform was meant to be about empowering farmers but instead it’s empowering Pharma. Across the world Big Pharma is rewriting the agricultural handbook. It not only wants a slice of the cannabis action, it wants to own the plant and control access too. Now, the hands that once nurtured the plant are being told they are no longer clean enough to touch it.
Marginalized Cannabis Communities to Take Centre Stage at Next Week’s Project Indlela Stakeholder Webinar
Key traditional cannabis communities have responded positively to Project Indlela’s call for a national dialogue and will participate in next week’s webinar on ‘Inclusivity’. The webinar, scheduled for next Tuesday, 2 December 2025, is on the theme: Restoring the Roots Unlocking the Cannabis Economy for Legacy Communities,
When SAPS ‘Good Faith Data Gatherers’ Come Knocking, Have This Document Ready
Legitimate cannabis ‘Grey Zone’ operators should welcome the SAPS Western Cape ‘good faith’ data gathering exercise – provided it’s not a trigger for a ‘cannabis hunt’. This is the view of Charl Botha of H3 Legal Solutions, who advises the managers of cannabis outlets to have this document on hand, for immediate use when SAPS members request information from cannabis-related outlets.