The South African government, led by some ministers, declared the food-borne illnesses a natural disaster following more than 1000 cases reported nationwide.
This came after the country recently experienced a worrying surge of food-related incidents and deathscurrent affairs journalist, contributed coverage of international and local social issues like health, corruption, education, unemployment, labour, service delivery protests and heritage in South Africa during his seven years at Daily Sun and Vutivihas declared food-borne illnesses a national disaster. This follows the country's more than 1,000 reported cases of food poisoning.
They let it happen by not checking up on spaza shops and conditions of the shop including the health nd safety obligations and proper regulations.""We are all aware that the government does not really care about our well-being. We should stop expecting them to come to our rescue."The announcement was met with resistance from members of the public and associations, and the department further called on vendors and traders to apply for Certificates of Acceptability to sell food.
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