#COVID19|Issuing of Temporary Trading Permits to Spaza Shops and Informal Traders
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The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs issued amended Covid-19 regulations on 3rd April which make provision for grocery stores, wholesale produce market, including spaza shops and informal traders to trade during the current lockdown.

In terms of the amended Covid-19 regulations, the informal traders must operate on condition that they have a written permission from the local authority.

The temporary trading permission will apply for the duration of the declared lockdown, and shall only be issued to the current legal hawking permission holders issued by the City of Ekurhuleni in terms of the Business Act No 71 of 1991.

Thus, no new permission applications or proxies or transfers shall be considered during the period of the lockdown.

The City will give sanitisers, gloves and masks to traders of processed and unprocessed food products whose applications are granted. The sanitisers, gloves and masks will be given on first- come, first-served basis.

Step 1: Applicants can download or collect the temporary trading permission application forms on: https://www.ekurhuleni.gov.za/media-relations/issuing-of-temporary-trading-permission- to-spaza-shops-and-informal-traders.html, or the nearest Customer Care Area (CCA).

Step 2: Applicants must complete the application form fully and attach a certified copy of the current trading permission (where applicable) that was issued by the City of Ekurhuleni and other required documentation.

Step 3: Applicants must secure a letter of support from a relevant stakeholders or CCA Manager
where the business operates to confirm their residential and business address which shall form
part of the final evaluation and approval condition.

Step 4: Applicants must submit their applications at their nearest CCA Manager’ Office wherein a Reference number shall be issued.

Step 5: All compliant applications shall be issued with a temporary trading permission within 24 hours of submitting their application.

Step 6: Applicants shall receive a text message to collect the temporary trading permission at their nearest CCA Manager’s office.

All successful temporary trading permission holders are required to carry and/or display their original temporary permissions at all times.