Threats To Boycott Woolworths!

[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....

[Justloadit]

With the continuation of the deterioration of our schools, there will never be sufficient learned students from the majority of our population to take up the managerial positions that are available.

You have to have the education and be proficient in management skills to be chosen and manage these positions. The continuation of the ANCYL and even members of the ANC, blaming the whites as always being in power, or have the money is to de-focus the population from the true reason of failure of the present elected government for not being able to fulfill these positions.

had the elected government taken education as a priority when it went into power, then lets say that a 13 year old learner at the 1994 milestone, would have started in the secondary education cycle, and by age 18 was ready for tertiary education, the leaner would have been sufficiently educated to enter into the managerial market as a freshmen by age 22. This would have been some where around 2003. By the time the learner reached 30, he would be ready for senior management, around 2010.

However with the collapse of the education system, highlighted by the non delivery of text books in the Limpopo province, only exacerbates the lack of educated young adults of the majority of South Africa for years to come, in fact decades from now.

Standing on a soap box, and making racist remarks that the whites are in control, simply shows that the current elected government have failed their electorate, and that it is so much easier to resurrect the racist remarks that we hear on a daily basis.

[adrianh]

I see on ETV tonight that we are ranked no 140 out of 144 countries in terms of quality of education. We are on parr with Libya....

So its the whites fault that my daugher is now taught rubbish at school...okey dokey...

[Dave A]

Forget racial discrimination in employment practices for a moment. Is it true that 97% of Woolworths customers are white?

[ians]

Forget racial discrimination in employment practices for a moment. Is it true that 97% of Woolworths customers are white?

Look at it this way, woolworths has no white staff visible in any of the stores i visit ( i visit 3 different stores depending on where i am working), and the number of white customers is normally the majority, i would say a ratio of customers, 10 white to 1 other being indian, black or coloured. Something to consider i only visit during the day, so i dont know what the ratio is in the afternoon or weekends. I think it depends on the store and time of day.

[IanF]

In the Woolworths stores I go to, when I am feeling rich it seem more like a 30/70 split. But I don't go that often.

[Dave A]

I'm always suspicious when hard numbers get presented as fact when they're not supported by hard evidence. But I expect we can agree that anecdotal evidence strongly suggest the vast majority of Woolworths clients are white.

From there my internal line of questioning went along the lines of "what does this tell us, and about whom?"
Sign of an unbalanced society? Yes.

And that's where the easy questions and answers stop - and where most people's thinking seems to stop too. Here are some tougher questions:

Sign of something that Woolies is doing wrong in their market positioning?
Does something need to be done to make this imbalance more racially representative of the general populace?
If yes, what should one do to correct this imbalance?

Now on that last one, if we were to take the EE approach, we should promulgate a law that only allows two white people in the door for every 8 black people through the door.

Will it fix the numbers? Yes.
Will it fix the problem? I suggest your answer to that depends who you are.
Is it the right way to go to normalise the numbers?


The problem (racial number ratios) is not the problem - it's a symptom of the real problem.

Does attacking the ratios directly solve the underlying problem if you don't do anything to cure the underlying problem?

If the underlying problem is the unequal distribution of means (read earnings) to enable equal access to discretionary choice, shopper quotas will fix the symptom - it does nothing to solve the underlying cause of the symptom.

And I suggest much the same applies to EE.

This is where I'm right behind Justloadit's post above in particular - it all starts with the quality of basic education. It is the single, most important thing government can do to affect the average outcome of the general populace - give them a great foundation as a springboard for their future (rather than making temporary props, and in the end being forced to reinforce them or even make them permanent).