Central SA
Kimberley Rastafarian community demands licenses to cultivate cannabis─── 15:03 Tue, 09 Nov 2021
The Rastafarian community in Kimberley is threatening a national shutdown of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). The group wants licenses for the cultivation of cannabis.
They marched to the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court demanding that police should stop harassing them.
In 2018, the Constitutional Court made a ruling stating that it’s not unlawful to possess and cultivate cannabis in private dwellings. However, the buying and selling of cannabis remain illegal.
The Rastafarians say they will forge ahead. Dr. Lennox Mtshagi from the Black Farmers Association of South Africa elaborates.
“We are going to have a meeting. After the meeting we will issue a date for a formal shutdown of SAHPRA. We are going to nationalise this date. We want our people to be catered for, and those who are not catering for our people, we want to see them in jail.”
