Calls for foreign-owned spaza shops to be shut down not xenophobic - Delft civil groups

CAPE TOWN - Civil organisations in Delft, Cape Town say their calls for foreign-owned spaza shops to be shut down were not xenophobic.

A sizeable crowd of protesters demonstrated in front of the Delft Civic Centre on Friday, calling on government officials to close all spaza shops suspected of selling contaminated products.

The call comes after an illegal sausage-making operation was discovered in Mfuleni this week.

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The owners of the place are accused of using bone meal, which is found in pet food, to make the sausage.

Community leader, Vusumzi Koyana, said that enough was enough.

"These spaza shops must go. First of all, they're not regulated and they're getting out of hand. We lost lives due to these spaza shops, that's our concern and that's why we are here today."