As part of government's aim to have a central database of spaza shop businesses, Gauteng MEC for Finance and Economic Development, Lebogang Maile, said police would be expected to maintain order during registration.
JOHANNESBURG - Police will be deployed to 70 registration points across Gauteng registering spaza shop businesses.
The list of registration points for spaza shop owners was released on Tuesday by the Gauteng Provincial Government, spurred on by the deaths of at least 22 children following a spate of poisoning incidents.
“Now that the police know where these registration points are, we want them to zoom into that. We will also have a discussion with the Commissioner of Police to say there has to be police visibility, and there has to be some plan because police can’t plan without intelligence. But now I hope they will have that.”
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