South Africa has more cannabis clubs than anywhere else in this directory and the least law governing them. Private use and growing became lawful in 2018 and were codified in 2024, but no Act creates a club, a permit or a register — so unlike Malta, Uruguay or Germany, there is no authority here whose list we could publish.
What this list does not cover
Every South African entry comes from the club's own public business listing — what it has already chosen to publish about itself. Nothing is compiled from private groups or member lists, and no entry is a claim that a club operates lawfully: the courts have not settled that, and no licence exists to check. Retail cannabis shops are deliberately left out; this is a directory of clubs, and calling a shop a club would misdescribe it.
How the law works here
Private adult use, possession and cultivation became lawful with the Constitutional Court's Prince judgment in 2018, and were written into the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act 7 of 2024. That Act governs private conduct only: it creates no club, no permit and no register, and dealing remains a criminal offence. Clubs operate in the space between those two facts, and the courts have not resolved it — the Haze Club, a grow-for-members operation, was held by the High Court in 2022 to be dealing, and the appeal was withdrawn in 2024 after a confidential settlement, so there is no ruling either way.
Members only, 18 or over. Beyond that nothing is fixed by law, because no law addresses clubs: each one sets its own terms, and no authority has approved them.
Cannabis for Private Purposes Act 7 of 2024