FAMILY MART HYPER SUPERMARKET TO OPEN AT TSHWANE MALL

The Family Mart Hyper Supermarket will be opened on 25 April 2026 at Tshwane Mall in Mamelodi West and will create around 200 job opportunities.

According to the new supermarket’s manager Tumisang Sibuyi, the company has another branch in Midrand and the one that would be opened at Tshwane Mall will be the second in the country.

“We have been in existence for four years now and this year will be our fifth one in existence,” said Sibuyi.

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“The supermarket will consist of a liquor store, the hypermarket, a beauty store, furniture store, and an Acqua which is going to be a play area for family and children,” he said.

“We are looking for 200 employees who will be spread across all the stores in terms of their different qualifications and expertise and as South Africa is struggling in terms of job creation, the fastest way to get employees is through the help of Ward Councillors who will go out and tell residents as to what we need from potential employees,” said Sibuyi.

“We have a taxi rank that is already in existence at Tshwane Mall and this will bring customers to our supermarket, that is why we have roped in the Mamelodi Amalgamated Taxi Association (MATA) and the Mamelodi Local and Long Distance Taxi Association (MALLDTA) as stakeholders,” he said.

MALLDTA chairperson Stemmer Monageng said all stakeholders and community leaders have been engaged and notified about the impending opening of the hyper market so that they can recruit potential employees for the supermarket as this will result in residents of all wards in Mamelodi benefitting, instead of only a few wards benefitting from job opportunities at the new supermarket.

“The recruitment process has already started and will be closed on 31st March 2026 so that the panel tasked with the responsibility to make final selections for positions at the Supermarket would be able to start with their work on 1 April, and we as MALLDTA and MATA are going to safeguard the interests of the people of Mamelodi by making sure that going forward 90% of the people employed at all malls situated in Mamelodi come from the township,” enthused Monageng.

He warned those who are in the habit of disrupting job creation opportunities that MALLDTA and MATA would confront them face to face as the two taxi organisations fight for the survival of the weakest of the weak in the community, including women and children,” emphasised Monageng.

Monageng also revealed that MALLDTA and MATA will also soon be launching a job creation project in terms of a newly-built mall which will create about 100 jobs near the BP petrol-filling station in Mahube, Far East of Mamelodi and that the project personally belongs to the two taxi organisations.

MATA chairman Ben Maredi expressed joy regarding the fact that the new supermarket will provide employment to unemployed people who have kids that they must look after, and that the initiative to establish a supermarket at Tshwane Mall will increase the number of people who will be flocking to the new supermarket; thus automatically increasing the number of commuters using taxis that belong to both MATA and MALLDTA.

To the Mamelodi taxi commuters Maredi said the following:

“As the taxi industry we survive because of you and without you we are nothing; we are able to pay up our installments for Quantum taxi vehicles because of you and to workers who will experience problems with the management of the various stores at the new supermarket, we urge them to approach us so that their problems would be brought to the attention of the managers and be resolved amicably.”

Councillor Kholofelo Khopotso of Ward 86, who is also Whip of ANC Ward Councillors in Mamelodi thanked Maredi and Monageng for being involved in a project that would bring about employment for the youth of Mamelodi.

“We thank them for notifying and engaging us in this job creation project and we hope that we as Councillors are not going to use this initiative for the benefit of our own families, but will use the initiative for the benefit of all residents of Mamelodi,” she said.

Kgopotso appealed to all Mamelodi Ward Councillors to stop practicing “gate-keeper ship” and open the said job opportunities to all residents of Mamelodi and Nellmapius.