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Surveys have shown that there is and has always been stiff competition to get a piece of the R900 billion township economy ...

Gauteng MEC for Health and Wellness, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, has lamented the lack of food safety standards at some of the local spaza shops in Ekurhuleni townships. The MEC, together with City of ...

Shops flouting regulations should be fined or shut down, but while the law takes its course, we shouldn’t forget humanity inside spaza shops. Shops flouting regulations should be fined or shut down, ...

Gauteng health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko conducted a food safety blitz in the area on Friday. Gauteng MEC for health and wellness, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, has lamented the lack of food safety ...

Those affected believe they fell sick because of food poisoning from products, particularly snacks, sold at spaza shops. These sites are also called tuck shops and are informal grocery stores.

A group of Pimville residents in Soweto have threatened to shut down a spaza shop after a teenager fell ill on Sunday from an ice lollipop. On Monday afternoon, a group of men ordered the closure ...

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says it is possible that some spaza shops are using and selling pesticides containing the chemical organophosphate to kill rodents. On Monday, the Minister ...

The ANC has urged the government to move swiftly in strengthening regulations for Spaza shops. This after a rise in suspected food poisoning cases involving children. A number of incidents ...

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is on Monday holding a media briefing to give an update on the test results on a chemical confiscated during spaza shop inspections. Since the Naledi children ...