Gauteng Food Safety Failures
Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa · 20 July 2026 · 4m
Speaker 1: Seven or two, the big entity with Conani move on to something else entirely now. Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, suspected food poisoning claimed the lives of at least twenty three Speaker 2: children. The Public Protector has been investigating Houting's SPASA shops and has delivered a damning Speaker 2: verdict that indeed, provincial and local governments have failed to do the one job that Speaker 2: could have prevented some of these deaths, enforcing food safety laws. But the report paints Speaker 2: another picture of a province stretched to beyond breaking point. How Deng has only about Speaker 2: thirty percent of the environmental health inspectors it needs, so that means thousands of touch Speaker 2: shops, SPASA shops and other food outlets food outlets operate with little or no oversight, Speaker 2: and johannesburgers the highest numbers of inspectors. Ekurulini Sawana City Bank are even worse off. Speaker 2: But it's not just about inspectors. Of these SPASA shops are operating without licenses, only Speaker 2: twenty eight percent registered. In Howdy, the Public Protector tells us fifty five percent of Speaker 2: SPASA shops are owned by foreign nationals. And I think it's another issue that points Speaker 2: to the failures of authorities because we all see who owns the shops, but how Speaker 2: many are registered and if they're not registered, who knows what they are selling and Speaker 2: whether you and I ought to buy it. Dumisani Fana joins us now as the Speaker 2: Deputy President of the National Informal Traders Alliance of South Africa NITASA. Speaker 1: A very good morning to you and thank you for your time. Speaker 3: Good morning, so are you. Speaker 1: I'm very well, Thank you. I hope you…
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