Spaza shops not effectively regulated, says minister Ndabeni-Abrahams

Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has conceded that there were no effective regulations on spaza shops whether owned by South Africans or foreign nationals in the country.Ndabeni-Abrahams said her department would introduce legislation in Parliament that will include reserving certain sectors of the economy for South Africans.“In South Africa as things stand we do not have effective regulation of spaza shops whether owned by South Africans or non-South Africans,” she said.Ndabeni-Abrahams said the Business Act gave authority to municipalities to issue…