Cian McClelland: Growing High Quality Medical Cannabis isn’t the Problem: The Real Issue is How it Gets to the Patient
SACHIDA deputy chair Cian McClelland says South Africa needs a clear, reliable, licensed and standardized route to market for medical cannabis. He says licensed cultivators are capable to growing high quality product for South African medical cannabis patients but there is no clearly-regulated pathway to make this happen.
‘State Cannabis Summit’ Convened in Response to Prince Application: W Cape High Court Wants Feedback by 1 Oct
All key departments involved in cannabis reform are meeting in Pretoria on 15 and 16 September to develop a co-ordinated government approach to the problems facing the sector. They are doing so under a Western Cape High Court directive in response to the Gareth Prince urgent application to halt cannabis arrests.
Kobus Schoeman: The Cannabis Industry That Ate Its Own—and the System Still Standing
Grow One Africa helped shape SA’s private cannabis-club model, shared its work openly and consulted hundreds of clubs—only to watch collaboration give way to copying, commercialisation & public infighting. GOA is now fighting for survival, but the digital infrastructure created through that experiment remains.
SA Steadily Growing its Medical Cannabis Market Share as it Sorts Out Quality and Control Issues
Canadian companies still dominate global cannabis exports, but MJ Biz Daily reports that South Africa has the potential to emerge as a new challenger. Ray Mariya writes that local exporters are increasingly confident they can compete on quality and standards and not just price.
Jamaicans and Malawians Arrested In Southern Gauteng as SAPS Bust Two Illicit Hydroponic Cannabis Grow Ops
A co-ordinated investigation by SAPS in the De Deur area in southern Gauteng appears to have uncovered an illicit cannabis distribution network centred around two sophisticated hydroponic facilities. Two Jamaican men have been arrested along with five other foreigners in two separate raids in the Sedibeng policing district.
Cilo Cybin Hit With Accounting Adjustment, Posts Shock R241 m loss for Year Ending March 2026
Cilo Cybin Ltd has posted its results for the year ending March 2026 with a surprise loss from operating activities of R241,1 million, due mostly to an accounting provision related to the reverse take over of Cilo Cybin Pharmaceuticals ahead of its JSE main board listing last year.
Four years on, SAHPRA Remains in Breach of Supreme Court Over Herbal Remedies
Four years ago, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that SAHPRA had overstepped its powers in regulating vitamins, minerals and herbal remedies as though they were pharmaceutical drugs. Little has changed. This BizNews investigation, by Marika Sboros, digs into what’s going on behind the scenes.
Call for eSwatini to Host SADC Cannabis and Hemp Roundtable Next Year
eSwatini’s first hemp concessionaires have appealed to King Mswati III to host a SADC cannabis summit next year. Joe Mkhabela and Johan Botha of African Hemp Development and Management made the appeal when they met the King at eSwatini’s International Trade Fair recently.
Cannabis Act Will Undermine the DTIC and Criminalize The Communities Govt Intended to Help
SA’s first dedicated cannabis law is to set to come into force with final regulations due before year-end. However, the Cannabis Act is a policy setback for government, criminalizing the intended beneficiaries of the Master Plan and complicating the DTIC’s reform strategy by expressly outlawing all commercial cannabis trade.
National Dialogue Reflection: No Wonder There’s No Framework: Nobody’s in Charge & Govt Depts Don’t Speak to Each Other
The National Cannabis Dialogue brought government, communities and industry into the same room. What it exposed was not a shortage of policy, but a system in which commercialisation, enforcement and inclusion still do not meet in one coherent framework.