Owners of food outlets, including tuck and spaza shops, in Johannesburg’s Region G have accused government of failing to adequately inform the public about the registration of their businesses.

President Cyril Ramaphosa postponed the registration of the businesses in November last year in response to issues of food safety.

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Chairperson of the shops in the municipality Tshepo Mokhele says officials are not giving residents important information such as the required supporting documents and the fees needed for the registration process.

“People have been registered last year, till today their papers haven’t been approved because they themselves don’t even visit to check your shop how it is. They only look at documents, but to come and verify, they’re not doing that. They don’t do workshops again – to say  – people if you want to open a spaza shop for locally, this is what you do, we need 123 – they should at least give people information. Now people don’t have information on them.”

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