MBABANE:President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the immediate closure of the Spaza shops implicated in the deaths of six(6) children in Naledi-Soweto last month, the Mail and Guardian reported on Saturday.
It had been reported that, this was one of the measures he announced on Friday night to grapple with a wave of food-contamination cases affecting mainly young children in recent weeks, including a requirement that all spaza shops and other food handling facilities must be registered within municipalities within twenty-one(21) days, failing which they will be closed.
“A massive campaign of door-to-door inspection of all spaza shops, tuck shops and other informal traders will be undertaken, starting with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. This will be undertaken by inter-disciplinary inspections teams consisting of the South African Military Health Services,environmental health practitioners, the South African Police Service, the National Consumer Council, labour inspectors and others,” Ramaphosa said in a national address broadcast live on television.
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