lead the team as they conducted shop inspections in Diepkloof, Soweto, with a specific focus on the compliance of local spaza shops and supermarkets to ensure that they comply with health, safety and acceptable consumer protection standards…
Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko says plans are underway to increase the number of environmental health inspectors to check for compliance with safety and health standards at spaza shops. “It’s going to be quite good now that as the government we are working together because we will definitely achieve what we want to achieve as the citizens of the province. But this thing is unfair, we don’t have health and environmental officials that are enough in the municipality and even in the province, because of the size of spaza shops that we have in our communities. Just Mamelodi alone, we’ve got more than 800.
Another resident adds, “Some kids are dead. We buried them on Sunday. So, this is not right, as parents, it’s so painful. So let them go, we need our country.” Addressing the nation two weeks ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced measures to be put in place to deal with spaza shops that do not comply with the law: