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Ministers launch R500m fund to empower spaza shop owners
April 09, 2025
|Cape Times
QUALIFYING South African-born spaza shop owners have been urged to step up owing to their properties to undocumented immigrants who run spaza shops in their areas.
This comes as scores of spaza shop owners, hawkers, and ordinary residents came out in large numbers to hear the Minister of Industry, Competition and Trade, and Small Development, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams unveil their joint R500 million Spaza Shop Support Fund during an event held at the Eyethu Shopping Centre in Soweto.
However, she said the venue, scores of other Soweto residents were irked away with a promise that the two ministers would return to the township on another date.
هذه القصة من طبعة April 09, 2025 من Cape Times.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
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