ANC Youth League first Deputy Secretary-General Tsakani Shiviti has called on young people to reclaim the informal spaza shop business and close all spaza shops owned by foreign nationals. This statement was made at the 13th ANCYL Mpumalanga elective conference at Nutting House outside Mbombela.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has given all informal spaza shops 21 days to register with local authorities or face closure. Shiviti emphasized that these businesses should be run by South Africans, encouraging young people to start from spaza shops to learn how to handle business accounts.
In a related development, six people were arrested and four non-compliant spaza shops were shut down during a multi-disciplinary raid in Soweto led by the City of Johannesburg. Ammunition and illegal goods were confiscated during the raid, which followed the recent death of a five-year-old in Diepkloof.
