Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has strongly condemned some South Africans who use their identities to held undocumented foreign nationals to register their spaza shops.
Spaza shop owners have 21-days starting on Friday last week to register their businesses to avoid closure.
Lesufi was addressing the media in Bramley, Johannesburg, on Wednesday.
The Gauteng government has assured that corrupt practices will not impact the spaza shop registration process as monitoring mechanisms are in place to continuously track progress.
Lesufi has pleaded with South Africans not to front for illegal and undocumented foreign spaza owners as this threaten efforts of growing the township economy.
