# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Small Business Development is urging all township and rural spaza shop owners to take advantage of the 500-million-rand Spaza Shop Support Fund. The fund will provide support to eligible South African black-owned township community convenience shops, including spaza shops, to increase their participation in the townships’ and rural areas’ retail trade sector. Committee chairperson, Masefako Dikgale, says spaza shops constitute a multi-billion sector that requires mainstreaming into the country’s economy to stimulate growth, job creation, and poverty eradication.
Township and rural spaza shop owners urged to apply for the Spaza Shop Support Fund