Angry residents shut down spaza shops

[@RiaanPretorius]

What a good community leader. Very eloquent and intelligent!

[@MzamoAdoons372]

And relaxed, ha pharatlhanye. I hope she is not one of the ANC activist who are always good at hijacking community programmes.

[@lloydmathoto1390]

Arrest the inspectors, it seems like our country is lawless

[@HarmonyLovePeace]

We have seen videos of these people bottling water from toilet, licking biscuits before packing them... that is crime and people who rent out rooms and flats for illegal immigrants must be charged or this will never end

[@mashoshoramokgopa-fr7dq]

We don't want the Minister. They are gona come with stories like is Lusikisiki. If the manager employees undocumented ppl he is arrested.why can't we arrest inspectors that are not doing their Jobs ?

[@MzamoAdoons372]

During apartheid these tuck shops belonged to black South Africans and now under the ANC they belong to Pakistanis.

[@TheColonizedFiles]

what a shame

[@HUNCHO46664]

True. But what went wrong ? Why did the previous owners vacate the premises. And why do landlords offer their spaces for these foreigners to rent there?

[@michaellawson6533]

........and Somalis et al.

[@dumirose9174]

Did someone open a case of murder against the shop ? These children died and accountability?

[@thabangmpooa4696]

The government does not like the idea of community people running businesses, people must idle in the streets doing nothing.

[@hgfku-tn6hb]

Have you ever been opposed to open business?

[@nyikomathabela]

This is a foolish view

[@joeljoel2047]

As South Africans we only need to work not to open our own businesses 😢 shame on us

[@terencefarmer8571]

Invasion of Pakistani, a spaza is not a specialized bussiness

[@hgfku-tn6hb]

You should be asking yourself from the beginning why they don't eat the food they're selling

[@fanamlawuli6761]

This is all anc's fault, all of it!

[@ndwekazim4881]

They know the ingredients and how their products are made

[@mtheranamtherana2182]

They are here to kill us but we have a choice of not buying and supporting these people we've an abundance chain supermarkets that are proudly South African who are being taxed but through our soft hearts we keep on supporting people who don't contribute to our economy the politicians don't even know how those spaza smell like, even inspectors must be arrested for letting this happen. These foreigners sleep and pooh in the same space they run as a spaza shop

[@cebile1493]

I blame us as South Africans for giving them our money and consuming their goods and also the landlords for even allowing them a space to rent our government has never intervened on anything and it's been a decade crying about the same issue seems like we have a very sort memory when it comes to this but what do we do????we give them money so they can continue operating 💔💔💔condolences to the families affected

[@obySedgefieldgemofourgardenrou]

Woman standing up, very good to see, few leaders have the strength to make a stand.well done .

[@pelagwele4059]

South Africans are not doing this in their respective countries.

[@DuchessofSA]

I don't think there are any South Africans in Pakistan 😂😂😂😂

[@AudreySocikwa]

DO THESE SHOPS HAVE VISAS to trade in townships? ANC GOVERNMENT how did these SPAZAS come to the townships? Do FOREIGNERS have permission TO TRADE in townships?.

[@mlazakenna276]

💔💔the whole scenario is heartbreaking

[@joeljoel2047]

Our government just focused on looting,they don't care, just give them your vote and they're good

[@tshidi851]

SAns have been running tuck- shops for ages before foreigners took over. We have never had such an incident.

[@siphamandlamkhize9766]

but why did we stop?

[@VeronicaVeronica-tn3tm]

After shut down is gonna open again.....dudula fight for this spaza's to be closed but we take lightly bcs we south African re bo Tomas makhola ka go bona

[@DeliweGrace]

True

[@HUNCHO46664]

Dudula was all over the place. They had legit aims, but some members like the one who was in the forefront Hlanhla Lux made the organisation look like a clown. Especially when he claimed that his house was bombed and went after Malema.

[@pelagwele4059]

Nothing is done with multiple illegalities in our country

[@GPP1.8T20v]

Agree Pakistani shops should be checked by health and safety. And even other shops

[@AudreySocikwa]

They are NOT wanted in townships as they do not like us.

[@joeljoel2047]

I don't think that will work, because in our country as long as they've money they'll bribe those health and safety officials

[@khanyi_zulu]

No, they must LEAVE!!! 😡

[@lloydmathoto1390]

Why can't this government listen

[@TsekoMofokeng-v2o]

What do you expect from useless ANC government?

[@ndwekazim4881]

Government does not care about us

[@SidimelaTerrence]

We South Africans have shot memories, it's not the first time this incidents happened, they closed today and tomorrow they allowed them back,how many of our kids should die because of toxic food from foreign owned Spaza shops,let them leave for good now.

[@joeljoel2047]

They open spaza shops as if there were no shops in our country, i blame the ANC for allowing this nonese

[@molokomoloko5099]

I blame our people for being too trusting, too welcoming. That's how our continent was stolen from us. We're still the same trusting and sleeping people

[@Ntsako100]

How is that a spaza shop owner suspected of killing 5 kids is not even arrested?? What kind of country is this??

[@rittah8161]

💔💔💔💔💔

[@blackgerman4238]

Well spoken Ma Bertha💯

[@elizabethnovak4088]

I love this lady in red shirt, she is so smart...they must not let the owners leave, all snacks and eatables must be tested by forensics first, before the owner discard or get rid of the stuff....

[@fanamlawuli6761]

abahambe!

[@markanmclean6385]

"Find creative ways to enter South Africa" - Honorable Commander in Chief Julius Malema🤡🤡🤡

[@mlazakenna276]

🤡🧠👶 honorable malema

[@Paul-hg9zs]

One thing i dont understand, work permits, permanent residence is given to foreigners only for running businesses and critical well paid jobs, while all the crappy jobs are left for South Africans, shouldnt it be the opposite , let the foriegners do all the crappy work and South Africans have the good jobs and own the businesses 🤔

[@Technology24]

You voted for the ANC you wouldnt be having this situation at all.

[@LinemediaStudioprinting]

What is the minister of small business is doing. It can't be business as usual but our own children are dying. This is too much now.

[@sethusipho3986]

She's incompetent and very corrupt

[@nomfunekonosilela3895]

Nqobile she is Mama Bertha to you let us not loose sight of our values as Africans of respecting our elders.

[@LehlohonoloRobert]

Its her mus its not a must to call her mama nqobile is also a mother

[@nyikomathabela]

How will the police investigate if the shop in question has been vacated 😮

[@mlazakenna276]

That shows the stupidity of the police. They know the situation, They should be there addressing the community about all that

[@bonganicele3476]

Pack and leave!? They should be charged and arrested.

[@busisiwesithebe4323]

My question exactly

[@ThokozileNofuya-fu2zd]

Thats sad , even those selling drugs dont smoke them

[@antisuz183]

What a lady. Respect to you mam.

[@swazirebel7316]

The GNU is nowhere to be found.

[@NirmalaMoodley-h2l]

My word this community leader is well spoken. Her request for health inspection to be done ,is pertinent for these shops to be accountable for incidents like this. Very sad ! Education to children on purchasing food or snacks is pertinent ,only to prevent loss of lives thru some food poisoning ,or expired food.

[@emapsdkmzo2158]

Where is the manufacturer of Snacks they must answer.Snacks must be Clinically tested at manufacturer.is Manufacturer illegal or legal company.Are they follow healty protocols

[@Ntandokazi08]

These guys will bribe the inspectors..... Cry beloved country

[@tdmap2241]

You were civil enough to ask them to leave. Africans, go to Pakistan and see how you are treated there. Let alone causing death to their children. ANC has let us down. I don't recognize SA anymore. Everywhere you go it feels like you are in a foreign country. we are becoming a minority in our own country

[@kk35-nif]

After inspection they will start collecting bribes like our police 😅

[@cebile1493]

Exactly

[@joeljoel2047]

On point, health and safety won't help us, they'll just come to collect money and off they go

[@vaughangiose8352]

Shame. People are so lost. The failure to uplift the poor leads to ignorance and xenophobia. Political parties also stir up xenophobia to manipulate the poor.

[@sylviasworld9397]

Poor children, their lives had just begun. Why did they not just sell genuine goods? People were buying form them, why did they harm them?

[@pelagwele4059]

Government tske care of your country and its people

[@MoisesChilro]

THIS IS NOT ONLY PAKISTAN ITS BANGLADESHI PEOPLE TOO

[@PhumaphiMyende]

ANC GOV.WILL NEVER EVER LISTEN TO PEOPLE, THE VOTERS!!!! KUNINI KUKHALWA????

[@sethusipho3986]

If the ANC never existed none of this would have happened.

[@acidicsoul4978]

Yeah 😂, you would be working as a garden boy for a white lady that'll call you "Shipo". I understand what you trying to say but we needed ANC (at that time to stop Apartheid )

[@sakumzimbatha1072]

So they are trading and people are still buying. So I think it's safe to say as South Africans we the ones who are to blame for supporting these spaza shops.

[@NorthBag777]

Betha is very intelligent

[@o.c2231]

It simple, stop buying from them and they will be forced to close!

[@afroqueerlens]

Abahambe

[@pelagwele4059]

In Sou Africa is like banana country ,animal farm. Doing as they pleases . Entering boarders with or no identifies. This is a disgrace. They now as.if this is new . Whereas is an ongoing incidents

[@anticorrup-g5o]

5 children died. If that Spaza shop owner leaves how is he going to be held accountable? But, yes they must leave our country.

[@busisiwesithebe4323]

Sad reality he'll rent in other areas he should be arrested

[@MandlaMhlanga-z4s]

Let them go now

[@ShadrackKhoza]

Which government are you talking about? We have no government in this Country, health inspectors, no health minister, perhaps we have one minister of health in South Africa and she's in Limpopo, Phophi Ramathupa.

[@nyikomathabela]

Oh my God, what's this thing about government. People don't understand how government works when its convenient.

[@EmmanuelChaCha-l2v]

Whereas going to buy henceforth? So the locality too can mess

[@Lulu-wv1nt]

He cant leave. He needs to pay for his crimes

[@dimakatsomokgeledi3999]

Don’t listen to those leaders when they come

[@sereentlhako4516]

They r even sleeping with cats inside their shops

[@mlazakenna276]

Government Health department Home affairs Immigration departments ANC SAPS Metro Its all their fault

[@rittah8161]

💔💔💔💔💔

[@lekhanyanemaboa9328]

You can't close spaza,where must the old and the sick shop?! I grew up watching a gogo shop a long distance to laudium and she was frail and weak to get a taxi. We relay on this near by shop they same burglary and theft that is why the criminals target the innocent shop. How sure are you that the contamination is from the shop or the drug addicts giving kids sweets or snacks. Re think your acquisition about these shop. Am sick I vouch for near by shop I can't travel to the mall for bread and teabag or pap and tinfish

[@Baba-o6z]

This is GNU government job, why are they not shutting down all tuckshops of this calibre nationally?

[@NalediRamothibe]

Bomastands le rata tjhelete money 💰🤑

[@sibongakonkedludla9540]

Went through the comments to see if any foreigner sympathizer were up in arms about this community demanding that this business be closed down after this, and nothing. Xenophobia doesn't exist when the lives of our kids are at risk and the crazy thing is like the lady pointed out this isn't the first time this has happened but our government is silent

[@sereentlhako4516]

Bribe name of game

[@tshidi851]

The ANC refused to take a decision to inspect foreign tuck-shops. Those that are for foreign tuck-shops should learn from this. The incident is sad and unfortunate. SAns have all along known that Palestinians sleep, wash in the thier shops. The community knew that this will happen because this happened last year. The community should have closed the foreign shops last year. The community failed these 5 kids. Shame on you Soweto

[@berenecewessels6543]

@tshidi851 All these spaza shops in SA shud be closed immediately they everywhere its so SAD that these children lost their Lives but this is not the first insident really All of them must be closed also selling expiry Goods

[@mtheranamtherana2182]

Close them forever plz

[@PhiriTerrance-wh3bj]

We don't have a government in South Africa

[@ashleymoses8567]

Ask your government y. Tsek

[@Palesa12]

Let's stop supporting their businesses

[@pelagwele4059]

It's very painful and heart tearing . In this country we voted for and loving it , seems no justice to our welfare. Thos is not the first incident

[@amangileqwabaza5703]

The problem is not the spaza shop as such but the wholesaler and or manufacture of these goods.. you can close or change the spaza but the new spaza owner whether SAcan or Pakistani will still buy from the same wholesale ..mxm

[@emapsdkmzo2158]

Exactly,the manufacturer or Supplier must Answer all questions.

[@ThuliMayeza]

Most of the time they got their own specific suppliers . I read that they manufactured their own brown suger thats why they goods are cheaper

[@maurylife]

Are you forgetting that these people duplicate everything that is legal in this country. Everything they sell is counterfeit. They don't get deliveries from reputable distributors but get their stock from one company which then distributes goods to the 'distribution' companies which is one and the same. They call it the spiderweb economy. Money never leaves their web

[@mrtmngwenya2837]

Something that these so called community leaders dont understand

[@Marcphoenixcorpstan]

Ha ba fockoffe!

[@BettySamuels-hq8om]

Amandla Mbokoto

[@ferozapage7937]

Time and time videos are trending but that person gets recycled to another shop..province 😅

[@User-u3n6p]

Dont worry ANC busy with Palestine

[@fredbantu3694]

Will the SANS run those businesses .......... NO... its SANS who give the Somalis a place to trade. The people still need the services who will fill the need of the community.

[@doc_zithu]

Yes👌🙌💕🙌

[@freedomzenzelemboweni4253]

Eh the soweto people said they want bo my friend back

[@pantinchelles6161]

Pakistani

[@RianRian-em2ng]

Good good bay from SA

[@cookingwithbeautybaking7526]

Masebehambile ningabavumeli baphinde babuye yingane zethu lezi ezifayo .

[@bruceberry3421]

Vote ANC problem solved !

[@DeirdreWilliams-wh1ib]

Yonke into blem anc anc wat is wrong with this people

[@ThabaniTBowseHadebe0909]

Pack and GO!

[@MariaWilliams-h7e]

Miller John Young David Martinez Paul

[@nyikomathabela]

This lady thinks she has all the answers 😂, i pity her. She must run for councillor and we shall see quick her steam lasts. My condolences to the bereaved families

[@akhonadyi3602]

Good community

[@NtombileNgwekazi]

Where is this happening?

[@amb549]

Soweto

[@nompumelelomdodana3867]

Naledi Soweto

[@sandymatiwana7823]

Please journaliststop asking a lot of questions

[@karabomakwetla4626]

I thought that's what journalists do for clarity and justification. Am I missing something here?

[@TsekTsekTsekTsek]

What a banana republic we live in

[@noluvondlebe8513]

They are non existing

[@ConstanceTembani]

Are these shops or houses used as shops. If not shops do your bilaws allow their use as shops.As blacks we value money more than lives

[@ElméErasmus]

Uyaphambana wena kuphi apha ss

[@raptorock5684]

Thinks she has the right to tell people what to do... Freedom of trade is a Constitutional right.

[@jiwwo1799]

If you're a heartless foreigner you'll say what you're saying..Here we're talking about 5 Kids that's has lost their lives because of these traders Stupid

[@martinmuller7127]

so sad... rubbish woman... graduates, matriculates siting at home.... it's because you don't have morals....

[@kwaziphungula]

Please enlighten us about the morals, I thought it was the morals that was keeping them from running unethical and fraudulent spazas but the foreigners running these spazas don't operate from the same basis, since they will do every and anything to make a quick buck.

[@Ntandokazi08]

Quite lost too. How is this woman lose without morals 🤔😕😳

[@JustFlourishToday]

You are talking nonsense, foolishness 😡

[@jiwwo1799]

What are you really trying to say?? 🙃

[@ashlouw5350]

This ignorant person is commenting everywhere.. Do you see how disgusting his morals is that he doesn't attack the morals of the people selling these poisonous garbage to innocent children.

[@someoneelse1895]

"This time it's going to be different" 🫡 this is who we thought nhlanhla lux would be

[@HarmonyLovePeace]

We have seen videos of these people bottling water from toilet, licking biscuits before packing them... that is crime and people who rent out rooms and flats for illegal immigrants must be charged or this will never end