CoJ officials close 5 spaza shops for non-compliance in Dobsonville
The team visited twelve shops in total and a majority of them were found with expired foods on their shelves.
City of Johannesburg multi-disciplinary inspection team raided a Dobsonville spaza shop on 22 November 2024 and shut it down for for running a business in a residential area, selling expired products, and using expired asylum papers. Picture: @CityofJoburgZA/X
JOHANNESBURG - City of Joburg officials closed five spaza shops for non-compliance in Dobsonville, Soweto on Friday afternoon during a multi-disciplinary raid.
The team visited 12 shops in total and the majority of them were found with expired foods on their shelves.
The raid comes after a five-year-old died in Diepkloof this week after eating contaminated food bought from a local store.
The waste management team said it removed all expired and unlabelled foods.
"In terms of the foodstuff, a lot of expired products in all the other shops was also taken in and there's some of the products have a myriad of non-compliance. For example, it's not properly priced or it's not priced at all. Some of the biscuits, the labelling, it's either not labelled, especially the pre-packaged foods that was confiscated. Because that is the issue that we generally have with pre-packaging is the poor hygiene issues and the cross-contamination that happens when these foods are then repackaged," said Gauteng director of consumer affairs, Milly Viljoen.
Six people have been arrested in Dobsonville, Soweto, following several raids on #SpazaShops by the city of Joburg. They have been arrested for illegal immigration as well as being in possession of unlicensed ammunition. Several rounds for a rifle (possibly an R1) were found. pic.twitter.com/caTS5EzyBJ
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) November 22, 2024