Ndabeni-Abrahams to give update on spaza shops registration

City of Johannesburg MMC’s lead a joint inspection with Environmental Health Practitioners, SAPS and JMPD at Siyabonga Supermarket, Naledi in Soweto on January 27, 2025.

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Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams will today update the media on the registration of food outlets including spaza shops.

Economic Cluster MECs will join her in the media briefing in Pretoria.

Ndabeni-Abrahams will focus on the registration process, findings and lessons learned.

She will also give details on the R 500 million intervention fund established to support small businesses.

National imbizo

The South African Spaza-Shops Association has called on government to convene a national imbizo on empowering owners of tuck or spaza shops.

The association’s president, Kgothatso Ramautso says, “As tuck shop owners, as informal traders we are making a call to government to say call us to an imbizo. We need to speak about these issues because closing our economy means that boy is going to lose his job. This thing we need to look at it holistically and be able to deal with it from that point.”