Shoprite Checkers in Livingstone has been closed indefinitely by a combined team of health inspectors from the Ministry of Health and the Livingstone City Council.
Livingstone City Council Public Relations Officer Emmanuel Sikanyika who announced the closure of the store says management has failed to comply with the health regulations as required by the Zambian laws.
Mr Sikanyika says it is wrong for Shoprite Management to continue with its business while rehabilitation are going on.
He says this has impacted negatively on some food stuffs as cement deposits have settled on shelves where food is stored posing a health hazard to the customers.
The health workers who inspected the facility also confiscated some food items from the store.
Shoprite checkers will only open to the public for business after the rehabilitation are complete.
ZNBC
they will open even when rehab are going on, watch the space
Alternatively, Shoprite can go and sell their mechendise on the streets. Sata says its ok.Â
In Zambia only where pipo can take advantage of the system good stance ba Health
Good job keep up the stellar work…I hope those at Lusaka City Council are watching!!
thats gud it was so bad
They are failing to close shops with expired foods where they are given money.
After all that is just a rented shop in town and shoprite Livingstone can sell and utilize the one at the Falls Park that they built for themselves
What is even more puzzling here is that Shoprite has been closed due to healthy reasons as the renovations are going on. Do these council and Healthy workers really know the danger the food vendors are selling any where is to the general public? my  concern is mu shop rite kuti twalwala Mu street mwenana iyo?
Uku ekufilwa ukwacine twamona ku biteko bu bwatubepele. I regret my vote.
Seriously, why didn’t anybody close mandahill shopping mall when it was undergoin a face lift? That was by far a human life hazard than the reasons given in this artivle to close dwn shoprite in L/stne
The Health team in Livingstone are more principled than the ones you are comparing them to.
Keep up the good job Livingstone Health officials.
King you are right why cant they challenge President Sata who allowed food stuff such fresh meat, Pwapwa, matumbo, muholu in the streets.There is no where in the world where you find sellers and buyers exchaning money and fresh meat in the streets.In actually fact they are exchanging micro organisms which you can not see by your naked eye.
I am not sure of the situation currently but the last time I was in Lusaka I noticed that among the worst health hazards are the market stalls. Vegetables are kept ‘fresh’ by soaking them in filthy water and ‘fresh’ fish is covered by swarms of flies from nearby heaps of uncollected garbage and much more. How do the markets escape the attention of health inspectors?
Close it why? Probably because there were some out of date cans of food… These very educated inspectors must take a short stroll to livingston market. The ntembas are selling very fresh goat and fishes from as far away as Mazabuka… Minus refrigeration! Imagine. Anyway chase the ka investment and bring back govment ZCBC:((
Double standards of the highest degree.How about the street vendors selling perishables on streets with no storage facilities at all.The refuse dumps at markets which are never collected and disposed off at right places. Pls do not be selective treat all people equally.
WHY NOT CLOSE MARAMBA MKT. SHAME OF YOU.
fishy, how come they are closing now that spar is almost opening? jst askin….i smell foul play
Where they take the confiscated goods? Who can tell me that the Health Inspectors trashed the food they got from Shoprite. So many ways of surviving when one is broke in Zambia.
IMWE guys at the top against the decision and saying double standards. Do you truly think a shop like Shoprite should operate at the same level & standard as a katemba. Answer is No!! A Temba is illegal in the first place so you cannot compare them. As to street vendors Zambia has no social welfare system if the unemployed cannot earn money in this semi illegal way they will turn to crime. Chase them off the street and watch the crime rate rise. GRZ needs to build good markets before moving street vendors.
Iwe Pa Zed, your rationale is not logical on street vending. it is not about building enough markets but regulating where these street vendors can trade. most of the street vendors are leaving markets to trade on the streets leaving most markets empty. have you been back to zambia? there are several open spaces in our cities where some of there street vendors could operate from before proper ones are built but they just love to trade on the streets because Sata has encounraged them to do so from the days of Kafupi and now with his resersal of what councils had achieved. Sadly has no vision for development and PF thinks that street vending is job creation and putting more money in people’s pockets.
@ Jay Jay if they apply that in Lusaka, firstly the shall close KABWATA ( were birds fly backwards ). Then kwa chazanga and all of Lusaka lol.
The health and council guys are doing a great job. They should stand their ground, their actions are based on statutes and they are protecting the citizens including those who are condemning them.
Well done,but what about the street vendors.Are they not posing more serious risk?
That is fine, but seems Shoprite is paying a high price of being a foreign co. Look at the dirty at the town center market called Zaimbabwe, Your toilets were recently shown on TV.Why dont youremove the og from your eye first baLibingi City Council?
Such stupidity can only come from this stupid inspectors.Double standards INDEED.Just go down the road to Zimbabwe market. FILTHY, illegal, no ZRA, but that is allowed. Who pays for their wages, Shoprite, not the street vendors.Who is creating real jobs??Scarring investrors away. BE REAL, WAKE UP.
I was in Livingstone recently and opposite the closed Shoprite shop is a smelly butchery with lots of flies. I am told the so called health inspectors turn a blind eye to such places. As a matter of fact the whole of Zambia is a health hazard. The whole country must be “closed”.
at the same butchery you are toking about ask them if they were not visited
@24, Worried:
It seems you are the one scaring yourself for no reason at all!
Do you really want to hold the so called “world class Investors” like shoprite to the same standards as the poor street venders!? You gotta be joking! These so called investors wouldn’t dare do, back in their countries, the things they try to get away with in Zambia. The health of Zambians shouldn’t be sacrificed in the name of keeping foreign investments in the country!
If you tolerate this kind of behavior by businesses in Britain (going by your flag), just enjoy your contaminated foods. In Zambia we say: NO! It is our choice as a sovereign country. We set our own health standards and any company not willing to abide by the set rules can look somewhere else for their investments, period!
imwe cant you see the difference between inspectors and your voted president sata, these guys are jst trying to do their work but with enough effort from your votes you allowed sata to overule some healthy standards allowing street vendors i really pitty your vote
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