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ANCYL Mpumalanga 1st deputy SG Tsakani Shiviti.
ANC Youth League first Deputy Secretary-General Tsakani Shiviti says young people must reclaim the informal spaza shop business and close all spaza shops owned by foreign nationals.
Shiviti made the statement at the 13th ANCYL Mpumalanga elective conference underway 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 says these businesses should be run by South Africans.
“Go and take over the spaza shops. It is young people who must be running SMMes in our country. It must be yourselves because you are going to wake up to big businesses (one day). If you have not started from the beginning, you must start from a spaza shop. Train yourself how to handle business accounts there,” says Shiviti.
Meanwhile, six people were been arrested and four non-compliant spaza shops shutdown during a multi-disciplinary raid in Soweto led by the City of Johannesburg on Friday.
Ammunition and illegal goods and products were confiscated by law enforcement officials during a raid led by the City’s Economic Development MMC Nomoya Mnisi. This raid comes after the recent death of a five-year-old in Diepkloof.
Six people arrested during spaza shop raids in Soweto:
