Closing spazas won’t absolve the state from duty of safe meals

The source of contaminated school feeding scheme servings should be much more urgently traced

10 November 2024 - 00:00 By SUNDAY TIMES EDITORIAL

In the face of rising exasperation at the continued threat posed by contaminated food eaten by schoolchildren, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has called for spaza shops to be closed and reregistered in order for them to be more effectively regulated for public safety. ..

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