Metro shuts down illegal peanut butter factory in Pretoria West
Illegal factories, unsafe food vendors, and broken infrastructure were all in the spotlight as Tshwane mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya led a service delivery blitz through Pretoria West’s business districts – vowing to restore order, safety, and accountability.
Tshwane Mayor, Nasiphi Moya, recently led a service delivery programme in the west of Pretoria, as part of efforts to address challenges faced by Tshwane’s business districts.
Moya said that their focus is on bringing the metro’s urban management operations to specific areas to address what isn’t working.
The approach includes the repair of streetlights, road markings, grass cutting, litter picking, stormwater treatment, and pothole patching.
The programme on August 1 focused on the Coca Cola Business Park and the Pretoria West Business Park, and the general Kirkney area in Ward 55.
“We don’t want businesses or residents to do the job that’s designed for local government. It is our responsibility as a government to ensure that things work as they should.
We have said that we want to clean Pretoria West, cleaning it is making sure that we enforce by-laws, and while we’re enforcing by-laws, we must deliver services,” she said.
Moya said 90% of businesses at a particular business centre were closed due to foreign nationals operating for years without any certificates.
“They sell rotten food products, and it’s really out of hand. My worry is that every time we enter a store, there are people buying food even though they can see that the conditions are not appropriate for these vendors to sell,” Moya said.
We conducted a by-law enforcement operation in Kirkney today as part of our targeted urban management. We successfully closed down businesses operating without licenses and we arrested five illegal immigrants. @CityTshwane https://t.co/Ix1wYJXae8 pic.twitter.com/y8dP7ovXoy
— Dr Nasiphi Moya (@nasiphim) August 1, 2025
The mayor also expressed gratitude toward the shops that were compliant regarding adhering to by-laws and settling their accounts on time, but she emphasised that these instances were few and far between.
During the programme, stakeholders also shut down a peanut butter factory operating without permits in Kirkney.
Moya said the peanut butter factory has ‘questionable health standards’ and there were no health certificates or permits.
“We are clamping down on illegal operations that risk the health and well-being of our residents. This peanut butter factory can’t be allowed to continue operating in this city,” Moya said.
Toward the end of August last year, environmental health practitioners (EHPs), SAPS and the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) raided another peanut butter factory in Zandfontein 317-JR, which falls in Region 3 of the metro.
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During our law enforcement operation in Kirkney, we shut down operations at a peanut butter factory that has questionable health standards. The people we found on site did not have health certificates or any permits legalising their operation. @CityTshwane pic.twitter.com/hiHFQXJBJV
— Dr Nasiphi Moya (@nasiphim) August 1, 2025
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