City removes street vendors from CBD

21-day cut-off for spaza shop owners and food handlers directive of the president draws nearer

December 2, 2024

Mbuso Kunene 1 minute read

Mobile kitchens being loaded onto a truck to be taken to municipal storage

City of uMhlathuze by-law enforcement action was not ‘kind’ to Nomthandazo Mdlalose (30) when she was forced to witness her mobile kitchen trailer being confiscated by municipal officials on Wednesday.

This is as the 21-day cut-off for spaza shop owners and food handlers directive of the president draws nearer.

Mdlalose, who has been operating her business since 2020, says she has done everything by the book, and accused the municipality of not being fair towards South African ‘law-abiding’ citizens who are trying to make a living for themselves…

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