5 Biggest Gaps in the Emerging Legal SA Cannabis Market

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The Gibbs Business School in Johannesburg hosted a webinar on the emerging legal cannabis industry in South Africa. The virtual discussion on 25 June 2021 attended by over 170 participants, focussed on the strengths of the southern African cannabis market and where the gaps lie for budding cannabis entrepreneurs.

Co-hosted by Cheeba Africa, the webinar’s panelists were Trenton Birch (Cheeba), Sibusiso Xaba (Africa Cannabis Advisory Group), Pierre van den Hoven (Silverleaf Investments), Thebogo Thlopane (Cannabis Trade Association Africa) and Brett Hilton-Barber (Cannabiz Africa).

This is the Cannabiz Africa Take-Out on where the opportunities lie in the emerging legal African cannabis market.


In three main areas:
Compliance and testing
Economic efficiencies
customer acquisition/understanding
R&D.