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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 ...

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 ...

An investigation led by the Health Department and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases has found an illegal chemical in the Naledi food poisoning cases. Government has promised to ...

A 13-year-old boy from Khubvi, outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo, died in the William Eadie Health Clinic on Wednesday after eating a snack from a local spaza shop. According to provincial government ...

Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has conceded that there were no effective regulations on spaza shops whether owned by South Africans or foreign nationals in the country.

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CAPE TOWN - Political parties in the National Assembly have called for urgent action to be taken to regulate foreign-owned spaza shops. They also want agencies like State Security and the South ...