JOHANNESBURG - Authorities are currently inspecting spaza shops in Soweto.
In the past few weeks, several non-compliant spazas were shut down.
Some of these small businesses have been linked to cases of chemical poisoning found in food.
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The shops sometimes service communities located far from formal business centres.
So how has the closure of the spazas affected these communities?
eNCA's Heidi Giokos has more on this in the video above.