South African spaza shop owners can now access grants up to R50,000 and blended financing up to R300,000 through a new ...

Spaza shops are the lifeblood of South Africa’s townships, providing essential goods and services to millions in areas underserved by formal retail. These small, informal stores offer unmatched ...

Government’s insistence that spaza shops across the country register their businesses – ostensibly to raise food safety standards following a number of deaths from tainted food – could end ...

Residents of Noordwyk boycott the development of a new spaza shop. The residents of Midrand, Noordwyk, Ward 112, are boycotting the construction of a new spaza shop in their area. This is because ...

A total of 296 spaza shops and food-handling businesses in Gauteng have been shut down as part of a crackdown on illegal and unsafe establishments. The closures were driven by a directive from ...