"SAHPRA has stated publicly that their actions in using the Apartheid era act of 1965 to allow them to issue licenses to whites only and foreigners, to the deliberate exclusion of the indigenous population, are at the specific instructions of the Minister of Health. SAHPRA's board mentions on record, that Dr. Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health is to blame for the monopolization of the Cannabis Industry because it is him who grants the licenses to the white-owned companies and if that is the truth then he must step down," said Dr Lennox Xolile Mtshagi, President of Black Farmers Association of South Africa. SAHPRA has dismissed the claims as untrue, saying the minister never gave such an instruction.
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