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SITHOLE: RECLAIM ECONOMY FROM FOREIGN NATIONALS

- Masoka Dube

Deputy Minister of Small Business Development Jane Sithole has called on South Africans to reclaim the township economy from the hands of foreign nationals.

Sithole was reacting to incidents in which about 300 children were hospitalized, while others died after allegedly eating snacks purchased from unregulated foreign-owned tuckshops in townships and rural areas.

Sithole urged the communities not to attack owners of the shops, but to approach her department, which is ready to assist them to open tuck shops that would be regulated and sell stuff that would not pose danger to lives of the community at large.