Spaza shop owners in Gqeberha have begun the registration process to ensure they comply with the health and safety standards within the 21 days stipulated by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Since September, 890 incidents of food-borne illnesses have been reported nationwide, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal leading the field.
Spaza owners says the 21 day deadline for registration as businesses is too short.
Spaza shop owners were queueing from as early as 7am to get information and documentation from the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality. Whilst they are responding to comply, they are appealing for more time.
We dont have a problem with complying with what the President has said, in fact we welcome it, but we just think that the time he has given to us is just too small. One of the requirements that we have a problem with is the issue of zoning, how can we be zoned when most of us have small shops, which are within small houses that belong to South Africans, how is even going to work.
