Things nearly took an ugly turn in Soweto when a protection mafia from Diepkloof zone 3 Confronted the community of Diepkloof zone 4, Soweto for forcing a Somalian to close his shop. The Somalian is fighting tooth and nail to get his shop reopened in the area and used his Zone 3 nyaope gang to try and Intimidate residents of Zone 4. While I know that the shop will never reopen, not if Queen Vee has anything to do with it, one thing is clear: The chances of the shop being petrol bombed 💣 by the community are low but never zero.
Parliament Hears That Only R57 Million of R500 Million Spaza Shop Fund Has Been Disbursed to 930 Spaza Shops So Far, Amid Allegations Foreign Spaza Shop Owners Benefited
Parliament’s small business development portfolio committee has heard that only a fraction of the R500 million Spaza Shop Support Fund had been approved eight months after its launch. By 31 July 2026, 5 327 complete applications had been received, with 5 064 assessed by officials.
The Small Enterprise Development and Finance Agency approved 1 386 applications across all nine provinces, worth R83.9 million, while R57 million had been disbursed to 930 spaza shop owners. Applications that failed to progress were mostly linked to businesses that did not exist or discrepancies between applicants and actual operators.
The fund has also come under scrutiny over allegations that some of its money was disbursed to foreign nationals. Parliament said the committee was receiving a briefing from SEDFA on a Public Protector report concerning the allegations. The fund is intended to support qualifying South African-owned spaza shops in township and rural areas.
ANC MP Matsholo Mmolotsane questioned the pace of the rollout, while officials said none of the applications flagged for possible fronting had proceeded to approval or disbursement. Only 1 026 owners had been trained against 1 386 approvals. MPs also called for a full beneficiary list, with officials citing data protection requirements before publication.
Nigerian MPs at the Pan African Parliament trying to bully South African MPs, accusing South Africans of being xenophobics that need to be investigated but South African MPs were having none of it & told Nigerians where to get off...
🎈‼️🔥 The no-nonsense Madlanga Commission Chairperson tells Mr Suliman Carrim’s legal advisors: “Awususitsheli lokho!” 😭
Your doctor’s conduct is analogous to a “hired gun.” 🔥
And I am calling the Popo!
#MadlangaCommission
🚨BREAKING NEWS | Madlanga: "The commission WILL lay criminal charges against Mr Carrim. If we don't, we won't be taking our processes seriously. Witnesses cannot choose to come or not willy-nilly. We will not have that."
#MadlangaCommission
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The High Court has ruled!
The most incompetent Minister has lost his case on placing NSFAS under Administration WITH COSTS AT SCALE C!
Buti Manamela is a monumental failure and embarrassment. I am starting to see why he was a Deputy all these years. He is simple out of depth, and cannot handle this responsibility.
Keeping him as Minister will do more damage to him than good. The guy is just not ready!
We told him on 29 May 2026, that he will lose this case.
He runs the department of Higher Education in the most clandestine and criminal manner. He convenes secret meeting, disregards the law and all legislation, and appoints the most dodgy characters across all entities!
The Board is back! His friend, the Administrator, and ALL 4 Advisors who were going to be paid MILLIONS ILLEGALLY must pack their bags and leave Cape Town before the end of business day.
"No other person is allowed for example to confront someone in the street to demand proof of identit,y we know that South Africans are not xenophobic" President Cyril Ramaphosa
"As communities and as a society we must not be tempted to join those who want us to turn against people who were not born in South Africa, we will and must not allow groups to use the legitimate concerns of South Africans to destabilise our country through inciting lawlessness and violence" @CyrilRamaphosa