Expired meat, food stuffs found at Orange Farm, Evaton malls
An anti-crime operation by police in Orange Farm and Evaton found at least two butcheries selling expired meat and products without any expiry date.
Some of the packets of meat had cardboard boxes in them.
#lockDownSouthAfrica | Roots in Eyethu Mall was found to have been selling expired meat. The owner was fined#Covid19SA pic.twitter.com/avhsEcqqeU
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Gauteng Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko and provincial commissioner Elias Mawela led operation Okae Molao in the south of Johannesburg on Thursday morning.
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The operation found a range of expired goods including chicken livers, gizzards, necks and margarine.
Some of the food had been repacked and resold to the public.
#lockdownSouthAfrica | Piece of cardboard was found inside a packet of meat in Roots at Evaton Mall#Covid19SA pic.twitter.com/smE7aZFgTW
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These findings come a week after a similar operation led to the discovery of expired goods at a butchery near the Bara Taxi Rank in Soweto.
Mawela says the sale of expired goods has become an area of focus for police.
"This issue of rotten food for our people, it is a concern especially here in Gauteng.
"I'm told that these shops are all over the country. It is something that we need to begin to concentrate on and focus on that so that we can save lives."
#LockdownSouthAfrica | Cooked meat placed on a trolly with no covers #Covid19SA pic.twitter.com/M6rav0aoh7
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) April 30, 2020