Velenkosini Hlabisa welcomes closure of spaza shop that allegedly sold contaminated snacks to a child
Velenkosini Hlabisa welcomes closure of spaza shop that allegedly sold contaminated snacks to a child! The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Velenkosini Hlabisa, praised the Mapetla community in Soweto for shutting down a tuck shop that allegedly sold contaminated snacks to a child.
Hlabisa addressed the community on Friday.
“What the community did to shut down this spaza shop as a source of illness to a young person who is in hospital was the right decision, in terms of ensuring that we do not experience more children going through the unfortunate scenario.”
Velenkosini Hlabisa
The eight-year-old boy has been in intensive care in the hospital for almost a week after eating the snacks from the spaza shop.
Last Friday, residents gathered at the local store in question, forcing it to close shop.
Hlabisa reiterated that tuck shops countrywide must be compliant with government regulations.
“If you want to open a business as a foreign national, you must have an amount of R5 million in your account – which demonstrates that you are here for business purposes. If you don’t have those documents, you are not allowed to run a business or a spaza shop.”
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