The Food Crisis That South Africa Isn’t Talking About // Weekend Special

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@masingitasingy Ай бұрын

Dan, I come from a house hold which used to own a spaza shop, so much of what you said here makes it sound like we had nothing and should we close them down we will have nothing. Let me take you through the evolution of the SA Spaza from 2003 to present. Every township, every village used to have a spaza, and they were black owned. Many of those would even sell on credit (some closed down because they were selling too much on credit). We then started seeing the foreign owned (somalian) spaza creeping in. They would approach a home owner and ask to build a store on their yard and pay them rental. For some without an income that was a big plus. These stores would also have a room for the employee to sleep in. These spazas would open at 6am and close at 8 or even 10pm. When the spaza first comes in their pricing would be cheap, almost to the point where you wonder if they are even making a profit. How could someone sell so cheap yet they have to pay rent and an employee but for us, who are operating from our own homes and we are the employee, we are barely making any profit? Anyways, it would never just be one spaza, they would open multiple in the same area. Making sure they price everything similarity, causing the black owned spazas in the area to close down. How did they manage to price things so low? They had their own distribution networks. Whilst for the black owned spazza, the owner would have to close it down to drive to the stores to stock up, these guys would have stock delivered to them, the guys working the store never even know where any of it comes from. Hell those guys barely even leave the store ever, they are basically locked in there. With this competition, more and more black spazas start struggling, those who had built structures get approached by these guys to rent the structure out. Most would agree because they needed an income and competing with these guys was near impossible in terms of pricing. This is how they took over the industry. My family has recently tried to reopen a spaza, we spent a considerable amount of money building a structure on some land we obtained. We were then approached by a foreign owned spaza business forum. They had pew-pews and told us that we are NOT allowed to open a spaza. They said this is their territory and they will not allow us to open a spaza in their vicinity, we can open any other type of business. I posted about this on fb, It was around 2019 and I saw the story landed on twitter. We decided to pull out and converted the building to rental rooms instead. So Dan, we are not dealing with people who are here to provide a service and provide food to an insecure nation, we are dealing wit a mafia and it needs to be addressed as such. The community I now live in has no foreign owned spazas, we do not allow them, we have many black owned spazas and they are doing well, kicking them out will not starve us, it would just give us back the opportunity to go back into a market which we were strong armed out of

@answertjiane428 Ай бұрын

This needs to be seen by Everyone!! I'd advise Dan to show this or interview you on he's Monday show, the fact that they have their own Distribution network scares me, this is why we have these food poisoning cases happening around the country at the same time.

@agrid2608 Ай бұрын

This!!! What has been happening in South Africa over the last few decades is economic displacement of locals and distortion of economic architecture. The fact that the propagandists always insist that even a needed "radical solution" somehow always rests on keeping an economic architecture in which the distribution of food remains foreign-owned should tell us something about their intentions. What kind of people advocate for a multi- billion dollar revenue & capital-building source with low barrier to entry to be in foreign hands? The "radical solution" should be creating a local architecture! This is a foreign mafia and is yet another layer of making South Africans powerless & dependent in their own land.

@SabzKhumalo Ай бұрын

Those that didn't close down, the owners were shot and killed. 3 in my hood including my cousin were killed until the locals kicked out all foreigners. This is the type of economic warfare these foreigners bring to us locals. Then they cry that we are Xenophobic.

@whodatboi2567 Ай бұрын

"The community I now live in has no foreign owned spazas, we do not allow them" Yeah, this is the part that doesn't make sense. I agree with preventing mafias and closing illegal distribution networks, but if a person doesn't do either of these things but just happens to be a foreigner I don't see a reason to prohibit them from opening their own shop.

@SabzKhumalo Ай бұрын

@@whodatboi2567 untill this whole thing passes and we have a serious government the only way to protect people is to outright ban.

@abdallaza7366 Ай бұрын

The real crisis in South Africa is that we dismiss and gaslight poor people on every issue they bring up until they die or burn things. THIS is years in the making.

@AnhAxg0dx 25 күн бұрын

the year started in 1994 :D

@fluid1614 Ай бұрын

Mean while our grocery stores are raising prices every month. Literally!!!

@SIYABONGAZUNGU Ай бұрын

That part👉

@5thdimensio284 Ай бұрын

But prices also do go down.

@pieterempiresmatch3852 Ай бұрын

Everything is going up every month petrol price drops then shoots up through the roof eliminating the drop remove the 60% tax on fuel so prices can drop

@fluid1614 Ай бұрын

@@pieterempiresmatch3852 nothing will make prices drop. Consumers are not dumb anymore. Last time egg prices went up bcause of bird flu, they haven't dropped since. They even used the Ukraine war to hike up cooking oil prices even though most of ours isn't sourced from there, atleast they got caught then. Anything for more profit

@jennyjac1122 19 күн бұрын

That's everywhere, not just here

@TehM4dcow Ай бұрын

The biggest miskake people make today is believing that we are living in a time of peace. War never ends, it only changes forms. Stay informed, and thank you Dan.

@weziefaith5484 Ай бұрын

The bribery and corruption that goes on in the food industry is a huge problem too.

@lifewithlucky98 Ай бұрын

We should also have a conversation about how much these foreign spaza shop owners exploit the people in these communities by paying them very low wages

@Tinker8531 Ай бұрын

More a conversation about do they pay tax.

@SnothiDladla Ай бұрын

First time seeing you without your kotoyi's😂😂😂😂. Only to see them stacked next to you

@nonhlanhlapearl4700 Ай бұрын

Kuyashisa😂

@SnothiDladla Ай бұрын

@@nonhlanhlapearl4700 explains why🤣🤣🤣

@That-JC Ай бұрын

Lol. Summer!

@SnothiDladla Ай бұрын

It sure is hot out there😂😂😂@@That-JC

@heinw54 Ай бұрын

Very good take. Thanks for the clarification. I honestly believe we also need a way to support small scale farmers directly. I don't think SAns turning to Spaza shops gets the opportunity to buy on cost price.

@langandlovu2807 Ай бұрын

A country rich in agriculture but having a food shortage 😅😂

@Earl442 Ай бұрын

It's so ironic

@khumalo6619 Ай бұрын

Painfully so

@ndwandwewasendwedwe7964 Ай бұрын

World Bank and IMF are responsible for that

@buhlebenkosigeorge4156 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately politics ruins everything even when we are so rich and abundant in resources

@siyabongamngomezulu9743 29 күн бұрын

This guy doesn't know what he's talking about

@FixMyGenny Ай бұрын

I remember seeing in turkey, they had some basic food stuff that was regulated by the government and distributed by the municipality. There were even special stores in the suburbs for people to buy these items. Our government has allowed a free market,unfortunately foreigners are not all to blame because all they did was a see a problem like any entrepreneur and started a business to solve that problem. However, with such low regulation they have started to take advantage of the public. I personally don't think Spaza shops can be regulated, like the taxi industry, it's a cash business. Even if we try to enforce laws, we don't have the enforcement to keep that consistent and sooner or later bribery and corruption will come to the fore. What we should be doing is regulate foreigners coming into SA and establish zones where they are allowed to live and work freely till they are ready to return to their countries. We've allowed them to blend into normal everyday South African society, have the same rights even though undocumented and also give them access to our welfare system, schools and hospitals. Going back to how I started this, I was a south african foreigner in Turkey, they don't allow you to live anywhere, they insist that if you stay longer than three months you must prove you have an income and a place to live, in order to register for a residence permit you must first go to the tax office and get a tax number, as a foreigner I had to have my own health insurance and a local clinic will not see me when I was sick, it gone stricter now.

@BigMun90 Ай бұрын

All your points hit the nail on the head. I'd like to point out that all those regulations for you in Turkey exist eMzansi but people are easily bribed to look the other way

@SCOUT-h3h Ай бұрын

350.00 doesn't help anyone.this fucked up government needs to give people skills but they don't want to give them skills they rather want to keep people dumb.

@jononaidoo2893 Ай бұрын

Love the work that you do bro! thanks for shedding a light on these issues!

@not_like_us_bng Ай бұрын

No Dan I grew up in the townships. Before 2010 we had a lot of black owned spazashops most owners were killed or their business were killed becoz these Pakistanis came with extremely cheap foods. We don't know where they stock and why are they so cheap. I personally grew up in a family that has owned shops for generations and today we have non of those business due to food not being bought we were operating at a negative trying to lower prices

@abdallaza7366 Ай бұрын

They steal from in transit goods and some they "manufacturer" themselves in dirty unhealthy environments.

@keanantrethewey7668 Ай бұрын

Living in China,I realized what a big problem it is here. Made me appreciate the food security I had back home. But so sad to see its happening now.

@shainndhlovu551 Ай бұрын

The food inspectors in most townships are not doing their jobs it's not just the spaza shop's that are not inspect here at my town usave is also not checked you find expired products in the shelfs with the expiration dates erased

@caesargama Ай бұрын

The South Africans who are renting out to the spaza shops should also be held accountable should it be found that their property is distributing fake food

@newperson4889 Ай бұрын

Why?

@nonhlanhlapearl4700 Ай бұрын

No your president should be held accountable as to why he chose to invest his money to the McDonald's food chain instead of local owned spaza shops.😂

@newperson4889 Ай бұрын

@@nonhlanhlapearl4700 are you replying to me?

@caesargama Ай бұрын

@newperson4889 Because they are sheltering criminals and therefore aiding and abetting. They are also benefiting from the sale of fake goods because the shops use this money to pay rent. These landlords provide an entry point for fake goods into our communities by not properly vetting their tenants

@buyimncube2588 Ай бұрын

They are some how responsible, they should be charged, all these shenanigans happens under their nose. They should know better

@adolfmudau9956 Ай бұрын

they not cheap food ....just nearby to buy

@mandileoxen Ай бұрын

Hi Dan. I love your work and I think you're what SA needs with the work that you do. If you could kindly do more research on this topic, please. It is more nuanced than what you are presenting, which then makes your presentation come across as more of an opinion than fact :). There are so many internal township factors that you have omitted. Shout out to you and the work that you're doing.

@StuckUpColouredzaza Ай бұрын

Very true! More RESEARCH.

@dipugomogoale9362 Ай бұрын

First one☺ This happening for a long i think because back then we weren't aware but now has to do with the high cost of food plus nowadays some spaza shops changes the expiring dates

@tamaryne489 Ай бұрын

Any thing goes in SA because of poverty and a lack of access until someone dies of food poisoning. Lets address the poverty. The government knows where every single squattercamp township is and what have they truly done to help these people. Too much poverty in S.A.

@9jawithaflow Ай бұрын

The problem is that our township economy has been entirely taken over by foreigners because indigenous owned spazas are almost obsolete. south africans must reclaim the township because only they will sell local food obtained from local produce

@ursulanzimande9515 Ай бұрын

If the relationship between the community and these foreign owned spaza shops is so necessary, why is it so easy for these shops to kill their no.1 customers?

@Tinker8531 Ай бұрын

That's because they don't value Black lives.

@LucianoDen Ай бұрын

Doesn't make sense

@itumelengntsoane4114 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂I also don't understand how killing your customers makes your business "better"

@vut_zarco Ай бұрын

You need to get GG Alcock on your show to discuss kasinomics and his views on this topic.

@victoria-janeerfort6934 Ай бұрын

As a Food Technologists this is absolutely heartbreaking and is exactly why we do what we do, so people can eat safe and nutritious food. We have such strict regulations that it’s frustrating that things like this is still happening.

@buyimncube2588 Ай бұрын

You not doing it at the locations nor advocate for your fellow citizens a On the ground Your main focus is big brands unfortunately

@tumweonlycommentary2797 Ай бұрын

Exactly

@MargaretNdlovu-q5w Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, this is one of those topics your research can't cover.Only the people on the ground can speak on the matter.

@abrahamsasa3439 Ай бұрын

The big Chains stores should get in and create like mini market franchise to supply good food to these small businesses

@asap2334 Ай бұрын

More expensive food doesn't necessarily mean good quality food. Big supermarkets are open to make big profits. There are many spaza shops that sell good foods and an affordable price.

@lee-annsmith5436 28 күн бұрын

They came in like a slow volcano that’s erupting now 🫣

@Empie1904 Ай бұрын

Its not the quantity of food thats the problem. Its the quality and all the processed food that people are eating.

@thriftedfinds Ай бұрын

Spaza shops were always owned by locals in the township community- don’t give the impression that they suddenly sprang up with the advent of foreign National immigration into the townships. I think you missed the chance to acknowledge that small enterprise run from households within the townships has been an enduring characteristic of township life.

@jason71how Ай бұрын

Bro, It's been talked about. Last year or a year prior, it was discussed when Sizwe Mpofu was still under SABC and many other news channels. The issue is not addressed or is addressed poorly.

@LifeInspection448 Ай бұрын

I've just seen a fake Fanta, Fanta orange is my favourite drink this is personal now

@vusimayhem7003 Ай бұрын

Once heard someone says "university doesn't even educate you about the universe"

@NormEngel-ge2it Ай бұрын

Dont lie to the people Dan. I moved from big city in this country to a very small town in the Nothern Cape. I encountered fake, and vast brand violations, in the big city, and also here, in the sticks. Now that I am in a very, very small town in the Northern Cape, I thought this would not be a problem. It is a health problem, and the government, from foreigners to our government at large, is to fucking blame. Public health standards in Daka, is amazingly different to Hanover (Northern Cape). I have looked through products sold by foreigners, and all of the products are Siff. I checked, and all of the products are literally Siff. Children and adults are dying all over the country, and you are here, gaslighting us, about food safety. No man, Dan. You are not living the lives, that we are living. Dysfunctional government, at all levels, and then we still need to deal with someone that jumped the rivers, borders. oceans, to come here, to sell us fake and harmful shit.

@sc0rtch Ай бұрын

Counterfeit food, blame it on apartheid. Food shortage, blame it on apartheid. Corruption, blame it on apartheid. Water shortage, blame it on apartheid. Load shedding, blame it on apartheid...Am I playing this game right?

@jacquesdewet2661 Ай бұрын

Dan is such a zombie.. He desperately wants more laws so Government has even greater control over the lives of ordinary South Africans..

@falliblepossiblygullible2920 Ай бұрын

I don't get what your point is. Is this you trying to absolve/defend apartheid? But even then, apartheid/colonialism was that rampant so it is not that far off the truth. The lines drawn by those colonizers are still visible. Now what?

@zwelimdlalose1059 Ай бұрын

No we actually blaming illegal foreigners and big monopolies like Tiger brands that sell GMOS and super market chain that will cause chaos in the market so theres an uproar then we kick out the foreigners then they can move in to the 195 billion rand food township economy we'll pull out the apartheid card later

@mmataukwena1078 Ай бұрын

Before spaza shop era, the grown ups would give us money to go buy at the community shops. Yes we had those. A building with a few stores, mostly it would be a butchery, a small store for groceries and maybe even another type of business. All owned by families we knew within the community. We would be sent because on fridays and month end, it would be so full, i guess the grown ups didnt want to have to deal with the rush hour. Then the shops just stopped operating as we started seeing the black owned spaza shops coming in. Not sure why butcheries stopped because we've never had spaza butcheries. But those were the days, never afraid to run to the store to buy sweets with R2 that your uncle just gave you. I swear its hard being a kid just as its hard being an adult.

@nolufefestemela7988 24 күн бұрын

Thank you for making the video. Very informative and an eye opener.

@LarryZAR Ай бұрын

Government is not the solution.😂

@malonnkonzwana5675 Ай бұрын

Curious. Do they pay tax in South Africa?

@thegirlthattalksalot Ай бұрын

I am also curious. I they even registered with the CIPC or what?

@lesetja31 Ай бұрын

Quick suggestion. Just say people instead of saying people of colour

@luzukodalasile465 26 күн бұрын

What a lovely and informative video, keep up the good work.

@desmondvanderwesthuizen7781 Ай бұрын

The government needs to step up and start serving the people.

@basetsanamokoka5462 25 күн бұрын

It's not only foreign spaza shop owners who give credit. They take that from south african owners have been doing that. I grew up in a rural area in NW. The owner was South African. He used to have a book where he wrote everything that you take throughout the month and got paid at month or quarterly when people got paid

@siyabongamchunu3232 Ай бұрын

South Africa has Regulators, people known as environmental health practitioners who have to enforce the foodstuff and cosmetics act, but they are not employed, as government doesn't see the importance of the profession, for each community there should be 1:15 000 people.

@Virtual.masterclasses Ай бұрын

100 000 subs for dan

@EatWithMe-Refiloe Ай бұрын

This is SAD

@chesterandrews715 Ай бұрын

And now there is a massive push by corporates to enter the township economy.

@Tinker8531 Ай бұрын

At least the community won't be poisoned by corporates and they pay tax.

@SylviaWilliams-u9n Ай бұрын

They must close them all close them to many of them🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@5thdimensio284 Ай бұрын

Where were people buying food before these foreign nationals started owning spaza shops in townships.

@tamaryne489 Ай бұрын

How about designing a food testing kit for spaza shop owners.

@ScissorN Ай бұрын

No . Get them out of our communities

@thabobooi3311 Ай бұрын

Dude! Counterfeit food is a huge issue here in South Africa, especially in the liquor industry... Moboneng and surrounding liquor stores are the hot spot of such goods....and When consumed, 3 days hangover experienced would want to send you to hospital. I know people who have passed away due to poison that was found in their system............ Where are our protectors at??

@appiahallan Ай бұрын

That's the government's jobs

@timesup4454 Ай бұрын

There are thousands of graduates who did foodscience ,why cant they employ them to inspect shops and spazas

@newgrowth4486 Ай бұрын

Good luck, they don’t want to be registered or regulated. It’s not new

@shaunmandich7181 Ай бұрын

We have become a importer of food we used to export tons of food..not now. Gov sits on 2 million hecters that's not being used.

@beewest5704 Ай бұрын

The Constitutional court said foreign shop cannot be closed but they say nothing about our kids dying. What is this country mara?

@siyandankala8329 Ай бұрын

jyo bro, My cousin died from food poisoning from this Kota place in Soweto. Now I cant even by a Kota anymore.

@riccithefree Ай бұрын

thats heartbreaking bro, never eating a kota again is a shame

@Worldofspeedy 23 күн бұрын

We are talking about it

@PCcedric Ай бұрын

Tiger Brands have entered the chat, Listeriosis in the building y'all.

@itumelengntsoane4114 Ай бұрын

America gives their poor food stamps. SASSA can negotiate with big food chains to implement the food stamp system. I remember one time we used to cut discounts tokens on food in newspapers in SA...

@NormEngel-ge2it Ай бұрын

Are we going sit here, and accept, deaths, from foreign owned shops? This foreign owned thing is everywhere, even in the smallest towns, in the Northern Cape. Dan, will you live like this?

@zenithgriffin Ай бұрын

Both my girl and our 4 year old son were sick for an entire week after we bought the Krush juice from the “Khulis” …. Yeah never again

@bulelanibaqwa Ай бұрын

Up to this episode I've agreed with most of your views Dan, but here I think you're missing the plot. We cannot glorify crime and say people smuggling rotten food are hero's. The department of social development needs to ensure that people do not go hungry through partnerships with established food retailers, if they can't do that we need to remove the ANC.

@sphamandlayende1510 Ай бұрын

The Shoprite R350 thing is possible; its just that most of these big businesses are a bit of a stretch for walking in most of the time but they do offer those deals for R350 grant holders.

@mr.blackzonrackz7055 Ай бұрын

Isn't our constitution stating that only South Africans can own Spazas? If that's the case they are doing illegal business and there shouldn't be a debate on this but shut it down. People should also learn to use money wisely

@SabzKhumalo Ай бұрын

It's because our government is useless.

@bafentsemogole4004 Ай бұрын

DANKIE LEKGOWA

@obokengm788 Ай бұрын

I live in Cape Town cbd and i buy majority of my food from foreign shops, I've been in a position of starvation before and just being able to buy such cheap things makes me feel grateful for having something rather than having to go home

@ScissorN Ай бұрын

But this shops are more expensive than your big retailers so what do you mean they are cheap?

@prophetpeter5394 Ай бұрын

@@ScissorN true most especially in long street n loop streets

@TzaboChakuze-vp7os Ай бұрын

Dan , could you get Fadiel Adam on your show ?

@nataliechazvemba4929 Ай бұрын

My opinion that could help rural areas is breeding rabbits or snails for meat. The manure can be used to fertilise food crops and so it goes. As gor nonfood or junk food then sure let the spazas do that. I breed rabbits and grow achatina marginata snails in my backyard.

@falliblepossiblygullible2920 Ай бұрын

Rabbits, maybe. Snails, hhayi. Snails can have deadly diseases.

@nataliechazvemba4929 Ай бұрын

@@falliblepossiblygullible2920 well you should see what the Nigerians and Ghanians etc up north do with with unconventional animals for food. Just on KZbin. It's amazing.

@falliblepossiblygullible2920 Ай бұрын

@@nataliechazvemba4929 people can eat whatever they like. People do know how to cook unconventional food well. I am just afraid of snails. Ever since I learnt about the liverfluke disease in Agricultural Sciences, I haven't been the same😂😂😂😂

@nataliechazvemba4929 Ай бұрын

@@falliblepossiblygullible2920 interesting. I need to look into that too. I haven't gotten to eating them yet. Would think thorough cooking would kill the parasites. Food for thought indeed.

@arnehaieschild343 Ай бұрын

Shit education is the problem

@brightonmukwindidza9627 Ай бұрын

Where are you getting this information?

@mandileoxen Ай бұрын

That's what I asked myself. This presentation is extremely misleading, especially if once doesn't live in the township. Thina we know what Dan is talking about AYIKHO....

@falliblepossiblygullible2920 Ай бұрын

He's literally showing sources on the screen tho

@Philly_btc Ай бұрын

@@falliblepossiblygullible2920 ignorant people

@5thdimensio284 Ай бұрын

@@falliblepossiblygullible2920 We don’t need sources, we live in the township so we know.

@Zaro_GMP Ай бұрын

I wish he'd talk about these wardens..

@tumelomabena7691 Ай бұрын

As I always say only Government and big business can rival this foreign owened spaza have already taken over we used To had a spaza shop at home we can't compete with them there prices were lower I mean too much lower

@fluid1614 Ай бұрын

Let's not just blame government but include colonial powers who interfere in our affairs anytime the government tries to make radical changes that would aid inequality. The colonial powers that did not pay repairations to black people but did Afrikaaners.

@jacoswart4397 Ай бұрын

Radical government intervention is never the best idea for the people

@jamesclark7380 Ай бұрын

It's not really that complicated. South Africans are just not rich enough. The discussion should always be about how to make more South Africans richer. Almost all of South Africa's problems are not so much of an issue for rich people. Buying dodgy food from dodgy spaza shops isn't an issue for rich people, is it? Woolworths does not need the government to come tell them not to sell you poisonous food. Eish, why can't South Africans run their own shops and get rich? What is stopping that?

@SabzKhumalo Ай бұрын

Ow do you compete with drug dealers and food smugglers? They also go unregulated because many of them don't pay taxes meanwhile the black SAns because they have documentation they get tracked down easier and taxed. I also have family members who own spazas.

@mr_wolfie_RSA Ай бұрын

how did aldicarb get in the snacks those 6 kids ate recently its a vicious poison

@SabzKhumalo Ай бұрын

It's because they operate like drug dealers.

@Deadround34 Ай бұрын

Ironic me watching this now as I'm counting 7 Rand 7 rand to buy food for the day what can I afford seven Rand

@falliblepossiblygullible2920 Ай бұрын

Magwinya. If they sell at R2 you can get 3

@AnhAxg0dx 25 күн бұрын

well where can you go with R20 buy 500ml juice with 250g chips and sweets... Hope they keep selling I will support them anytime even if it kills me - if they don't kill me with their food ,South Africa's costs of living will so at least I can choose, for now

@angeloxulu3066 Ай бұрын

Food and alcohol

@ScissorN Ай бұрын

China reserves its small business to its locals and so is many other countries in the continent, its selfish to expect poor SAns who have only tasted 30years of democracy to share the little they have

@derkdx Ай бұрын

how do you see mash mapotatoes videos?

@CowardOne Ай бұрын

Small people…

@rightthumbnail Ай бұрын

Try making some actual policy suggestions, this seems like a collection of pop-phrases without much underlying substance nor direction to go. Good coverage of some news headlines, but “thinking about” won’t do enough to solve these problems.

@lebogangwalter1120 25 күн бұрын

Government let the Pakistan's out muscle SAs to survive in the Spaza industry has been gone for years now all because this government

@Thokozane-u3g Ай бұрын

If I had a rand for everytime someone blamed apartheid I would have hundreds of thousands of rands. People of colour had spaza shops during and after apartheid. So we can't pretend that's the reason for the lack of black owned spaza shops

@ursulanzimande9515 Ай бұрын

The problem is not that people didn't own spaza shops during that time, it's the lack of proper infrastructure and policies to make these businesses successful

@whodatboi2567 Ай бұрын

A system where communities are so heavily reliant on spaza shops that would starve without them is a broken system.

@Thokozane-u3g Ай бұрын

@@whodatboi2567 I agree with you and to add to your point, lowering the matric pass mark in a way is a policy that creates illiterate high school graduates who don't have to read to succeed. If you don't read you tend not to get into any hard sciences and tech careers like IT, Programming, data science...And these fields are hiring and they pay really well. So more black children will become unemployable and unfortunatley poor and reliant on spaza shops for food. The policy to lower the pass mark has really hurt the kids future.

@Thokozane-u3g Ай бұрын

@@ursulanzimande9515 I agree with you. Pick n Pay also struggles in these times but they struggle because the blacks, Idians, colourds and whites use foreign owned spazas. So do you then get rid of these businesses(foreign spazas) that are currently out-competing 'Pick n Pay' and black owned Spaza shops? And one other thing, should we as the blacks really get back into that business? There are so many opportunities in the Tech industry. Shall we not divert in that direction instead?

@ursulanzimande9515 Ай бұрын

@@Thokozane-u3g how many black people are privileged to venture into tech?

@richardspencer4999 Ай бұрын

Why the emphasis on "foreign owned"?

@AstrologicalLesedi Ай бұрын

Most cases in the media are caused/owned by foreigners

@AstrologicalLesedi Ай бұрын

Most cases in the media are caused/owned by foreigners

@chillimadebeats Ай бұрын

Because they're, they took over that business

@RSAMommacyndi Ай бұрын

What is 'expired food'? There is no such thing, in SA law, and makes no sense in any analysis of this horrible situation.

@SifisoJcooler Ай бұрын

Before foreigners who was feeding SA during 1994-2000, and was there a famine in SA reported? This statement of foreigners being the stronghold of food security is misinformation. What about agriculture and produce distributors (Joburg Market)? This is a grand assumption, not a peer review research. Also, your sampling is not largely quantitative, only secondary (news articles), which never reflects reality.

@lufunomunyai523 Ай бұрын

Dear Dan, you're making a lit of sense about something you know nothing about do your research my brother. Read a comment from Masingitasingy below and learn. Before 1984 we had successful black owned general dealer almost in every vil🎉lage. " Those who don't know talk and those who know do not talk."