SPAR Western Cape recently hosted its annual Cancer Charity Event. The long-running initiative ,supports various cancer charities. The event culminated in a R300 000 financial contribution to Project Flamingo, a non-profit organisation that facilitates timely, life-saving surgeries for breast cancer patients within the public health sector.

In July 2015, during a SPAR Wheelchair Wednesday activation organised by the Association for the Physically Disabled (APD) in Nelson Mandela Bay, South African radio personality Queenie Grootboom was among a group of able-bodied people asked to perform tasks while seated in an assistive device.

There is a voice recording that’s doing the rounds implicating SPAR Brand Products as being supplied by Enterprise and containing MDM from Brazil that contains Listeria.