Cape Town: The South African government has called on citizens to allow spaza shop owners to register for permits without hindrance. This request comes in light of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s directive for all spaza shops and food-handling facilities to register with their respective municipalities. The registration is part of a

Johannesburg: The Department of Agriculture will, in the next few days, conduct inspections at all five registered manufacturers of Terbufos to ascertain controls, and to determine if markers are put into locally produced products to distinguish between illegally imported and locally produced chemicals. This follows the death of at least

Johannesburg: Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has acknowledged the challenges in addressing ongoing deaths and infections linked to foodborne illnesses. This as Gauteng police have opened an inquest docket after a five-year-old boy died on Wednesday in Diepkloof from suspected food poisoning. According to South African Government News Agency, the

Pretoria: National Police Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, has issued a warning that the police, through the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS), will be closely monitoring adherence to the law. This announcement coincides with the initiation of integrated multidisciplinary compliance inspections across food handling facilities, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and

Johannesburg: The Department of Basic Education is working to prevent the infiltration of industrial and agricultural pesticides into schools as part of a broader multidisciplinary effort to address the recent deaths of school-going children due to foodborne illnesses. Speaking at a media briefing on Thursday, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube

Pretoria: Government has welcomed the decline in consumer price inflation (CPI) from some 3.8% in September to 2.8% in October. The 2.8% CPI – which marks the lowest inflation rate in at least four years – was announced by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) this week. According to South African

Pretoria: The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has, in a unanimous decision, opted to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points, bringing it down from 8% to 7.75%, effective from Friday. This marks the second consecutive repo rate cut under Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago, following