https://www.businessday.co.za/news/2026-09-25-government-seeks-to-bring-rural-cannabis-growers-into-formal-economy South Africa’s illicit cannabis market is estimated at roughly R36 billion a year. That figure, repeated in recent government and industry discussions, is not just a statistic. It represents thousands of rural and traditional growers, many of them custodians of landrace genetics and intergenerational knowledge, who remain locked out of any formal, legal pathway […]
