Shoprite's plan to acquire a stake in a R&A Cellular makes a lot of sense considering the retailer's aspirations.

The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development has called for urgent intervention to address delays in municipalities issuing operating licences to spaza shops, describing the licensing backlog ...

SOWETO South Africa (Reuters) - In this corner of South Africa's black township of Soweto, the biggest building used to be the Catholic church. Now it's been overshadowed by a shopping centre and ...

JOHANNESBURG - More than 18,000 spaza shops out of the 81,000 registered nationally have been licensed to operate, but thousands are still waiting for approval from municipalities. The slow pace of ...

Spaza shops within the Muizenberg precinct were told to close at 20:00 for safety reasons. Police investigations revealed that a significant number of murders occurred while residents were loitering ...

Survival items are densely stocked on the shelves of spaza shops in Soweto. The shelves contain the basic necessities of life – food and water. For black South Africans, spaza shops are places of ...

On Tuesday, Premier Thami Ntuli led a multidisciplinary law enforcement operation in the Richards Bay CBD, targeting stores and checking compliance. FILE: KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli.

Oreo has introduced a new R5 Value Pack which is a lower-unit offering that’s easy to stock, move and consume, particularly in high-footfall spaza stores. Containing five distinctive Oreo cookies - ...