SA’s largest retailer Shoprite had to house employees in hotels and its distribution centres during the Cape Town taxi riots to keep stores open and cashiers safe. 

Shoprite held its AGM on Monday and answered a question from shareholder activist group Just Share about staffing pay during the violent taxi protests in which five people died and employees could not get to work. ..

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