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  • noun Plural form of spaza.

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Examples

  • She said those who run small shops and spazas had lost everything.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Inspector Paul Ramaloko said about 80 to 100 local business owners protested against foreigners who own small businesses like spazas in Diepsloot, in an attempt "to persuade those people to close down their businesses".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Also included in the campaign are security gate information panels, which are mini-billboards attached to the security gates which enclose stores and spazas.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • It also said Pensecure was dishonest for wanting to subsidise its other projects by using spazas, or informal shops, which it supplied as pension pay-out points.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It also said Pretoria-based Pensecure was "exceptionally" expensive and dishonest for wanting to subsidise its other projects with its pension operation by using spazas, or informal shops, which it supplies as pension pay out points.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Nevertheless, deregulation has seen the proliferation of hawkers and spazas in the central business districts of erstwhile ` white 'cities, and townships.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • An outsider with little experience of South Africa's township squalor would see in Alex only the shacks and spazas - rough-hewn shops - and likely feel threatened, as if malice lurked around every corner.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

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