ActionSA pushes for local ownership of spaza shops

[@tebogongema967]

South African government must be hold accounted for the deaths of our children

[@NelisiweNgobese]

And sued cause this is negligence.

[@fclef-f3s]

Don't you dare blame the government you should only blame black people

[@SifisoJcooler]

Finally a voice that speaks for the citizen's frustration. 2026 ANC should pack their bags

[@TsekoMofokeng-v2o]

ANC government can't even control rats and mice. Every town is full of rats and mice. I saw rats and mice chasing cats. Cats were running as fast as their legs could carry them to a place of safety. I asked myself,are all of them comrades?

[@buyaza8918]

Exactly 💯

[@SifisoJcooler]

@@TsekoMofokeng-v2o 😭😂😭😂😭😂

[@Cent51]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@OnkeSomdaka-sg1yk]

​@@TsekoMofokeng-v2o 😂😂😂

[@inderanimoonsamy6408]

Local owners please

[@VirginiaMamogawane-qc4gl]

Lesufi is the main problem cin SA

[@pajun1078]

This would make sense if ActionSA had some local entrepreneurs ready to start those towship businesses, or was putting energy to train township entrepreneurs, instead they think the gap will automatically be filled! All this talk would have been logical if there was a flourishing of "locals" in that space and the foreigners were somehow interfering! Obviously, it's purely political! The truth is, if those Pakistanis and Ethiopians were still making some profit, it means the convenience brought by the proximity of their shops is valuable! Closing those shops without any replacement will be detrimental to those communities in the ahort term, and could even be in the long term! The best solution is for the local government or the government to pass laws that incentivise locals to enter those space with better perks than foreigners (better taxes, maybe some form of loan plans to support "spaza businesses", ...).

[@TheMsyZa]

The locals were flourishing in the space. I dont know where you were, but the foreigners had an unfair advantage, like economies of scale (allowing them to give debt snd sell unregulated products) snd barriers to entry (no business or tax certificates or visas) that were not inforced by the government. Also, Action SA is not the government in power, they don't need to have people ready to do anything, the ANC should be implementing the existing laws. You make good points but you sound like you've neve lived in a township.

[@ukhamba_solutions]

Please try to summarise your statement so we can engage.. The spaza shops were doing very well under locals, before something that we don't know happened. Maybe you were born in 2000?

[@marysinclair3759]

@@TheMsyZa being in a township means nothing. It is all about business which can be done ANYWHERE. If people are able to recognise opportunity then they are the people that build economies. Stopping foreigners from owning spaza shops merely because they are foreigners is unacceptable. Many businesses in South Africa a foreign and that includes Spaza shops. What is supposed to happen is that government is supposed to send health inspectors but they never do and are only now doing so to score political points. All foreign owned businesses employ people. Are you going to provide employment to the many thousands of people who will become unemployed? Nope, some critical thinking needs to happen and sadly many foreign owned Spaza shops that do adhere to regulations and service their area well will be adversely affected just because of the rehtoric that is being spun by parties such as Action SA.

[@EarthScope23]

They are killing our Locals in some townships, I even bought some stock, planning to construct a smaller shack at home! Let's open up people, bazozyekela bona, it's simple

[@ukhamba_solutions]

@@marysinclair3759 Unacceptable by who? You? Spaza shops owners must be fully documented and legally suitable to operate. Foreigners are manufacturing poisonous food inside shops. You sound like one of them, and if the government don't, the people will shut you down no arguments.

[@stanleytshwale1263]

Remove ANC from power and God will make this nation again

[@EarthScope23]

The only Party that cares for its constituency, ASA 💚💚💚

[@NelisiweNgobese]

Our constitution says foreigners are allowed only with skills we don't have. In townships we have skills to oparate a spaza shop.

[@SiphiweSithole-ne9tk]

I wonder why ANC hate South Africans

[@fclef-f3s]

Since you are aware that the ANC hate South African citizens why do you keep voting for black political parties ?

[@WITHYNATHY]

My party Action SA

[@EarthScope23]

🫡

[@sbu7066]

Well done to Mr Herman Mashaba and Action SA, you deserve the local vote.

[@jameskillu9171]

Well done for speaking trash. Mashaba is a xenophobe. who looted govetnment building as mayor

[@petracollins8623]

You are missing the political maneuvering at expense of the real issue of safe products. Why has this become a zenophobic issue.

[@janomesteve3129]

Start blaming the communities aswell for supporting these foreigners and not just the government

[@samueljones7754]

True.

[@zamaphungula3367]

It makes sense for South African to own their economy formal or informal,. Alot of these big business were once small so let stop looking down on small business they are in fact get way to economic freedom.

[@desertink6007]

True leadership, we as the youths are not benefiting from this democracy, we go look for work and stay in shacks while foreign nationals occupy Flats in towns illegally now the occupy the local economy.

[@kongowea9903]

🎉 And good protocol systems for the management and training of the spaza shops.

[@BhekisisaJingela]

Lababantu bayazenzela icoke

[@LesegoMakhanya-w2o]

You right but it's just coke. The range of counterfeit good that they are manufacturing is expanding by the day.

[@achyon7.236]

Viva action SA now that's a chess move❤❤❤

[@AM-zx4mg]

Maybe some health inspectors got there own spaza shops

[@obakengngamole1954]

It's hard to compete with this guys on price

[@PumlaNzima]

Coz they manufacture poisonous goods

[@PumlaNzima]

Stupid comment after losing lots of children coz of their poisonous food

[@fistosravenscroft6651]

This is good, but for crying out loud stop making items expensive, I always avoid a local spaza because I know prices will be higher

[@ElizabethphephelaphiSikhosana]

They only doing that to south Africans,why they don't close foreigners shops I'm so heart broken poor south African they are vistims in their own country 😢😢😢😢😢

[@BhekisisaJingela]

2026 ill vote for actionsa

[@azurecoast1537]

Liyabhotsha alikwazi lutho ngezi Spaza shop liyaphapha nje masatafrica

[@RianRian-em2ng]

And thay pay no tax

[@MKL_D]

This is a party that cares about SA. Not just false promises.

[@lizelleowen1756]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ritesh-yy1zr]

You delusional buddy

[@kgotsosetae1831]

​@@lizelleowen1756keep laughing wena racist

[@clockjohny6576]

Everyone want to open business but where is funding?

[@SharonKeune-zo1zi]

Please stop saying this is due to Apartheid. That card has expired

[@MaphiweNkosi]

Well done a s big job nilalela abantu anikhulumeli abantu njenge a n. C 4:30 4:37 4:39 4:40

[@ThulieMayeza]

Yes they manufacture their own product even brown sugar .that's why their products are cheap because they don't stock in normal regular wholesale. If u think straight if they stock in places which are recognized. They won't be cheap as people they said they will not get profit. They sell expired goods and also change expiring date. Sleeping in shop .having cats roaming around the shops

[@mekonnentadessemikure2763]

Mashaba and his organization they don't know rule and regulations an educated group

[@abdicasishassanali5543]

As a somali I request 2 close all the spar shop

[@FrancinaBuda]

Where? At Somalia?

[@abdicasishassanali5543]

​@@FrancinaBuda Here in limpop and kzn,

[@franck3603]

Who's stopping South Africans to own all the spare shops

[@WillamShauke]

I used to have spaza shop you can't compete with foreigners selling cheap fake goods

[@petracollins8623]

You are muddying the waters. Take a step back. Whoever owns the spaza shops, the Goods must be safe for human consumption. Just causing division and friction.

[@rnw5141]

Abahambe

[@trumpet835]

Anc cover up v Abdullah Muhammad.

[@sehlabakapaulus7032]

This motion won't succeed

[@NelisiweNgobese]

It will be a good or bad way we are tired of ANC .

[@duzzitright3084]

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