Cannabis

Cremation, crime and cannabis

Article Paddy Harper - 14 Feb 2020

Sugar barons going down and the new marijuana Bill are timely distractions from thinking about the old man

No legal sales in new cannabis Bill

Article Paddy Harper - 14 Feb 2020

Draft regulations do not allow for commercial cultivation or sale, but policy could change this

Green justice for all

Article Tefo Mohale - 10 Jan 2020

Dagga’s illegality here and in the United States was racist and the new cannabis industry doesn’t include those who were jailed for using it

Bobi Wine, live in concert

Africa Simon Allison & Dhashen Moodley - 12 Dec 2019

This is the show that the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, does not want you to see

Hawks bust cannabis lab

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 15 Nov 2019

The Canapax chain owner, who claims to be a traditional healer, has been arrested

A day for getting high on emotion

Article Paddy Harper - 20 Sep 2019

September 18: the day dagga was decriminalised and the day that the ConCourt reconfirmed beating a child is illegal

Let’s change SA’s mind on psychedelics

Article Paul Michael Keichel - 6 Sep 2019

The major hurdle is not so much an absence of science, or safety, as it is unthinking religious, moral or cultural panic

Dagga: Push for legality and legitimacy

Multimedia Hiram Alejandro Duran - 22 Aug 2019

On September 18 2018, the Constitutional Court decriminalized the private use and cultivation of cannabis in private spaces.

Slice of life: ‘Cannabis calm saved me’

Article Jacques Coetzee 1 - 16 Aug 2019

Today, I’m a weed activist. I’ve seen the injustice of really, really good people getting fucked by really bad laws

Cannabis cultivation gets the royal nod in KwaZulu-Natal

Article Paddy Harper - 26 Jul 2019

Go Life International, a listed company that manufactures health supplements, has been in talks with the Ingonyama Trust Board

The great green gold rush

Article Simon Allison & Dhashen Moodley - 16 Mar 2019

Cannabis is set to become a multibillion-rand business in South Africa— but we may have to decolonise it first

Dagga Party credits grassroots support to get on ballot

Article Lester Kiewit - 13 Mar 2019

Earlier this week, the budding political party put out a call to supporters to donate to their election campaign

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Focus on FW de Klerk distracted attention from the troubling state of the nation

Bongekile Macupe - 17 Feb 2020

Some political analysts say President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking too long to mend the country, others says it is the ANC itself that must be fixed

National

Eastern Cape MEC orders graft investigation after two workers killed at troubled district municipality

Chris Gilili - 17 Feb 2020

The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption

National

South Africans stuck in China are desperate to escape coronavirus ‘prison’

Sarah Smit & Chris Gilili - 14 Feb 2020

But the department of international relations and co-operation claims they are comfortable and taken care of

Press Releases

Response to the report of the independent assessors

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.

Press Releases

NWU student receives international award

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

Carol-Mari Schulz received the Bachelor of Health Sciences in Occupational Hygiene Top Achiever Award.

Press Releases

Academic programme resumes at all campuses

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

Lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials will all resume today as per specific academic timetables.

Special Reports

Strategic social investments are a catalyst for social progress

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Barloworld Mbewu enables beneficiaries to move away from dependence on grant funding

Special Reports

We all have a part to play to make South Africa work

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Powering societal progress demands partnerships between all stakeholders

Special Reports

So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Do the research first; it will save money and time later

Special Reports

Social entrepreneurship means business

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Enterprises with a cause at their core might be exactly what our economy desperately needs

Special Reports

Looking inwards

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

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