Members of Operation Dudula are expected to picket in Soweto today against the registration of foreign-owned spaza shops.spaza shops will be given 21 days in which to register their businesses with their respective municipalities.
Operation Dudula’s president, Zandile Dabula, says they will picket outside the Urban Ubuntu Council. This follows growing concerns over people being admitted to hospital and in some cases dying after consuming contaminated food believed to have been bought from some spaza shops. Some Pretoria residents say they are not impressed. One resident says, ” As citizens, we are aggrieved. We are not sure if this President is for us or for the foreigners.”The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal says its data shows that most spaza shops in the area are not registered in the names of owners.