The National Informal Traders Alliance of South Africa NITASA has expressed concern over the time allowed for spaza shops to register with government amid concerns about food contamination.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of government interventions to regulate shops including spazas , following the recent spate of food borne illnesses and deaths.
Ramaphosa says spaza shops need to be registered within 21- days.
NITASA president Rosheda Muller explains Ive listened to every single word our president has said, and those are good things that he wants to implement- but I do believe the time frames is really unrealistic. For example, if a spaza shop is registered, all that needs to happen is that the health inspector, or the municipal officials, need to go check up if the health conditions are in place and compliance is in place. Its going to be impossible, it will probably take more than a year, for all of us to go stand in a queue.
SA Spaza Shops President Ramaphosa on govt interventions Rosheda Muller weighs in
