President Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Getty Images
On the eve of the national and provincial elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill into law.
Ramaphosa assented to the bill, which has been before him for his signature for several months, on Monday afternoon, hours before South Africans went to the polls in the most significant election since 1994.
The presidency said in a statement that the new Act would regulate the possession, use and cultivation of the plant by adults in a “private…
