This time, as was the case during Covid, government is bringing the carrot of funding to the party in the form of a R500 million spaza shop support ... employing 2.6 million people and ...

The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) has also led interventions, including the Township and Rural Entrepreneurship Programme (TREP), which aims to provide financial and non-financial ...

Spaza shop owners will receive a wide range of institutional support following their successful registrations. Minister of Small Business Development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams on Sunday outlined the ...

Despite these efforts, the implementation of such policies remains fraught with challenges, particularly concerning enforcement, red tape, and the exclusion of non-South African spaza shop ...

The government declared food-borne deaths a national disaster, and President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the first deadline to register spaza shops. "The ANC is still running the country like it's their ...

In October last year, Leon was among four children who allegedly consumed biscuits from a spaza shop in Naledi, Soweto, and later died. “Even though we do not talk about this all the time ...

Now, the jump in the cost of a carton of eggs could frustrate the Federal Reserve’s plan to not raise interest rates. The Fed has brought inflation down to 2.5%, from high as 7.2%, while the ...

Government set a deadline of this afternoon for all spaza shop operators and owners to submit the necessary paperwork and fees in order to register and keep trading. Hundreds of Soweto spaza shop ...

JOHANNESBURG - Today is the last day for spaza shop registrations. And, this time the government says there will be no extensions. The deadline was extended as the President's 21-day window was ...

This registration effort follows President Ramaphosa’s directive, which came after 23 children died in Gauteng last year due to foodborne diseases linked to spaza shop products. After the ...

PRETORIA - Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has urged spaza shop owners to meet the 28 February registration deadline. The minister engaged with business ...