27/02/2025
PUBLIC AWARENESS STATEMENT🔔🔊
To members of the society. Woke wishes to make an awareness in regards to spaza shops registration order by our South African government as we are about to reach the extented closing date of the registration (Friday, 28/02/2025).
We wish to make members of the public aware that the regulatory law comes as an effort to bring about accountability, smooth and safe operations of Spaza-shops, as we are all aware of the previous unfortunate Spaza-shop incidents that occurred within our country where loss of young lives made headlines which led our Government taking this step. Woke understands and is aware of the positive role Spaza-shops are playing in assisting with poverty alleviation since most properties that are rented on are owned by South Africans.
We have realized that some foreign nationals may/would approach households owners to request them to register the businesses on their behalf, these foreign nationals would appear as employees of the registered person/s on paper, our main message is to make members of the public to understand the implications and responsibilities that come with the registration of this nature of business, members of South African public who are registered as owners of the Spaza-shop businesses should understand that anything that happens regarding the business is their responsibility, they would be held accountable if the person/s running the operations of the business is found to be selling for instance expired food, illegal ci******es, etc, even when that person is in this country illegally it would mean that the owner should take full accountability in that regard.
We urge potential Spaza-shops owners to study and fully understand what is expected of them as owners in order to avoid preventable bad events from occurring as well as their consequences.
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