Despite being South Africa's most populous province, Gauteng has registered significantly fewer spaza shops compared to other provinces. The minister attributes this to undocumented individuals operating these businesses.
JOHANNESBURG - Despite Gauteng being the most populated province, it has recorded one of the lowest numbers of spaza shop registrations in the country. Cooperative Governance Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa revealed that just over 2,000 spaza shops in Gauteng applied for registration, with a little over 700 approved. In contrast, Mpumalanga, with a population three times smaller than Gauteng received nearly 10,000 registrations.
The inter-ministerial team working on spaza shop registrations provided an update of figures in Pretoria on Wednesday.Gauteng was expected to have the highest number of spaza shop registrations, but surprisingly, it recorded one of the lowest figures. Hlabisa says the most likely explanation is that spaza shop owners in the province chose not to register their businesses. 'Many of the spaza shops that are operating will not apply because they are operated by people who do not have documents to be in South Africa.''We should not be worried or frightened by the fact that a number of them are not coming forward. It’s because the people who are running them are not the people who are supposed to run them.' Spaza shop owners now have until the 28th of February next year to register their stores – following the extension announced by the government today
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