Spaza

Sixty-three pupils from an Eastern Cape school were taken to hospital when they fell ill after eating snacks and drinks allegedly bought from vendors and spaza shops near their school.

The ANC will need to develop policies that provide funding and support for young entrepreneurs, such as the ongoing initiative by Minister of Small Business Development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, which focuses on spaza shops.

Inspections into Soweto spaza shops have revealed noncompliance with consumer safety laws and some stores were found with expired food on their shelves yesterday.

Inspectors from the National Consumer Commission found this mouldy bread in a spaza shop in Naledi, Soweto, recently.

Mashiga and Modingoane agree that instead of being reactive, the health inspections at spaza shops should be proactive and preventative.

Meanwhile, Simelane said the qualifying criteria for registering spaza shops were “very specific”, saying that “the owner of the business must be a South African citizen operating within the borders of the country”.

Media personality Mohale Motaung has called on the government to have illegal spaza shops closed as more food poisoning reports emerge.

Some users accused the government and people renting out their properties to these spaza owners of complicity.

The countrywide crackdown on non-compliant spaza shops has begun.

The family of ten-year-old Lesedi Maaboyi criticises the government's failure to properly inspect spaza shops after her death.

At around 19:30 a group of nine suspects held the owners of two spaza shops in Holomisa Street Ilngelethu Malmesbury at gunpoint and fled with cigarettes, cash and airtime vouchers in a white minibus taxi.

For instance, spaza shops could act as nodal points for payment and delivery.

Mohamed Surat of Enjeni Spaza shop said he was pepper-sprayed by the police who pushed people out of his shop while their goods and money were still on the counter.

Sheikh estimated that 124 spaza shops, stalls and other businesses in the area were either damaged or looted.

Spaza shops started in the homesteads of rural South Africa, where a handful of very basic goods would casually exchange hands between community members in passing or be handed over the neighbour's fence.

Spaza's must have a permit to trade and municipalities are ready to assist with this," she said.

Shock number 2, he’s passive blackmailing spaza of “if you send me the song, I’ll go buy the album”.

The inquiry recommended that government help establishment distribution centres and wholesale markets in township areas, and provided seed finance to incorporate spaza shops into buyer groups and logistics chains.

A spaza shop needs to meet requirements that it should be part of the dwelling house and not exceed 20m².

Refrain from sending children unaccompanied to shops or spaza shop, during the day or night.