Threats To Boycott Woolworths!

[Just Gone]

adrian just bear in mind that earning R20k in the UK is not the same as earning it here - rent is high etc etc etc.

[Just Gone]

My wife and I would go out for dinner in Jhb costing around R500 on average. When in the UK it would cost us around 90-100 pounds for the equivalent meal.

[adrianh]

I agree, R20K in the UK is not R20K in SA. The fact of the matter remains that he earns more there than he does here and he is not working as a glorified filing clerk. You must remember that I have family and friends living in the UK so I am fully aware of prices there. My wife went over last year to visist her brother. No matter how you cut it, every singe person that I know that went over is happier and doing better than what they were here. Not a single one of them want to return or will return.

[Blurock]

tec0 does have a point. It costs a labourer up to 40% of his wages to get to work. It therefore does not pay for him to work half day, as the transport costs for a full day and a half day is the same.

I have had this argument with one of my manufacturing clients who insisted that staff come in on a Saturday morning (just to make up the weekly hours). Nothing much happened on a Saturday and they were given menial tasks to keep them busy.

We later agreed to work an additional hour from Monday to Friday and have Saturday off, which saved one day's transport cost. Needless to say, productivity increased immediately.

[Nickolai Naydenov]

http://mg.co.za/article/2012-09-06-viva-woolworths-viva

A mail and guardian article from one really shallow writter on the matter

[ians]

Spar doesnt have a card which can put you into debt for your food.

[Phil Cooper]

The press published a blog from a Woolworths employee last night.

She states that a) she is White, b) recently employed, and c) is interviewing people for jobs at the moment - of all races, including whites.

VERY angry - she says this is an urban legend being blown up by the ill-informed.

[tec0]

If only all those South Africans now expressing outrage at Woolworths for implementing an employment equity plan in terms of the Employment Equity Act had been similarly outraged at racial discrimination during Apartheid. If only they had taken part in boycotts of the South African Police Force and Defence Force and had boycotted all the companies who helped to prop up the Apartheid state.

I was wondering when we will see this Source

Now I cannot help but wonder if this "reporter" actually figured out that how many people wasn’t really born in those times and that they had nothing to do with the decisions that was made?

[Just Gone]

Well I was born then ........... lived thro that period and went to the army in that period ............. I think a lot of people here on the forum is the same.

[tec0]

And how many of the choices made back then was yours? And how many of those choices were made by your leaders?

[Justloadit]

The problem here is not Woolworths, but our racist government. If after 18 years in power, they still can not take control of their own free will, with out bringing in racism and protectionism accompanied by nepotism and corruption, then there is really no hope for South Africa.

Why do my children have to be subjugated under this racism called BEE, when they were born n the supposedly racist free and democratic South Africa.
If they continue to burn down schools, and prevent their children from going to school in some protest or other, they they must remain where they are, and leave the minority groups alone, who wish tomake a good life for themselves.

If you don't have the skills for the job, then move over and allow someone else who does, irrespective of your race or colour!

[Justloadit]

I have been thinking about this thread, and believe that we should start making everyone aware of the fact that our current government is racist, and we need to make a stand, or else our children will suffer, because they will never get employed.

Whilst our vote may be lost in the sea of votes, we can use our finances to make ourselves heard. So I will be boycotting Woolworths, so that we can start making the public aware of this racist job equity that has been passed into law by our parliament.

[Just Gone]

tec way back then we all had choices..................

[tec0]

tec way back then we all had choices..................

No, No one had any choice. In anything really... The easiest way to blind someone is to make them believe that they have choice. Now I know you don’t think much of me but please think about this. Every campaign had there “truth” it was single minded and directly aimed at people’s fears. It was exploited back then. And today we just see more of the same.

[Blurock]

No, No one had any choice. In anything really... The easiest way to blind someone is to make them believe that they have choice. Now I know you don’t think much of me but please think about this. Every campaign had there “truth” it was single minded and directly aimed at people’s fears. It was exploited back then. And today we just see more of the same.

We can not blame everything that goes wrong on apartheid. We've had enough time to change the world that we live in, so no more excuses.

White people exercised their choice by voting for change. The NP had no choice but to hand over power. For too long people were fooled by the communist threat, the catholic threat and the "swart gevaar". The politicians lied to us, but in the end truth prevailed.

The ANC and their alliance partners are now using the same racist rhetoric to fool the masses and to keep the elite in power. The truth is however slowly revealing itself and people are realising just how wrong and how politically bankrupt the ANC is. The time has come for all South Africans to stand together, to kick out the politicians and to start building a nation. The chickens are coming home to roost....