Mantombi Mkhwanazi, Monaheng Section, writes:
With unemployment growing and many people in the townships relying on spaza shops to purchase their daily food needs, it is about time these informal township food supply chains are placed under scrutiny.
Firstly, it is disgusting and unhygienic to know that many of these spaza shop owners also use their shops as sleeping quarters.
They wash themselves and their clothes in the same confined space in which they also keep the food they sell to their customers.
It is unacceptable that spaza shops, despite the fact that they handle food, are not being subjected to strict municipal by-laws.
The municipalities are the consumers’ only protector in a small business food industry that is fraught with hygiene violations, price rigging and the sale of highly suspect food products to the public.
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