Ministers launch R500m fund to empower spaza shop owners
By Siyabonga Sithole | Published Apr 9, 2025
The fund, aimed at empowering and skilling South African-born spaza shop owners and other food handling businesses with training, skills, and funds to inject into their business, comes after spaza shop owners were given until February 28 to register their businesses following a wave of food-borne fatalities in Soweto and other parts of the country.