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Musica has closed 19 stores since the start of its 2021 financial yearImage: Arena File photo

Musica shuts its doors after 29 years

Clicks Group said on Thursday it had decided to close its Musica entertainment business due to the shift to digital consumption of music, movies and games, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Acquired by the pharmacy group in 1992,…

PROTEST: Woolworths and Pick n Pay announced that they would remove TRESemmé products from their shelves following an alleged racist hair advert posted by Clicks.Picture: THULANI MBELE

Clicks: Losing all sense of proportion

John Kane-Berman for the Dailyfriend Supplied by the National Employers Association of South Africa (NEASA) That the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) should have seized upon the clicks hair advertisement to showcase their propensity for…

The EFF and Unilever officials posed for a picture after reaching an agreement that TRESemmé products could remain on South African store shelves.Image: Twitter/ @EFFSouthAfrica

Unilever and EFF agree: TRESemmé products will be back in stores in 10 days’ time

Unilever, which supplies TRESemmé products in SA, and the EFF on Thursday reached mutual ground on the future of the hair-care brand. While large retailers such as Shoprite Checkers, Pick n Pay and Clicks had agreed to pull TRESemmé…

FIRST APPEARANCE: Diane Attwell outside the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court with advocate Terry Price SC on ThursdayImage: EUGENE COETZEE

Woman accused of pointing gun at Clicks protesters appears in court

Diane Attwell, the Port Elizabeth woman accused of pointing a firearm at protesters outside a Clicks store earlier this week, made a brief court appearance on Thursday morning. The case was postponed to November 6 for further…

Police stop EFF members blocking Clicks store in Cape Town

Police stopped EFF members from blocking the entrance at Clicks, N1 City, Cape Town today. Pictures: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMES​ TimesLIVE

Woolworths and Pick n Pay have announced that they will remove TRESemmé products from their shelves following a racist hair advert posted by Clicks.Image: THULANI MBELE

More stores pull TRESemmé products off their shelves

Woolworths and Pick n Pay are removing TRESemmé products from their shelves after a public outcry over an offensive hair product advertisement posted by health and beauty retailer Clicks. “Given the recent concern about the language used…

EFF members danced and sang protest songs outside the Clicks store in the Mall of Africa while wearing masks.Image: Thapelo Morebudi/The Sunday Times

OPINION | ‘Faceless’ masked protesters operate the same way as internet trolls

Internet trolls, aka cyber bullies, are free. Too free, and that is what makes them dangerous. They are free to be rude, hurtful and destructive without consequences because they are faceless. Thanks to Covid-19 and the compulsory mask…

Bheki Cele insists that comments by EFF leader Julius Malema were an incitement to attack police officers and their families.Image: Esa Alexander

Police Minister urges police to continue to stamp out criminality during anti Clicks protests

The Ministry of Police has called on police officers to continue to ensure the safety of customers, staff members and property. This follows organised acts of vandalism at Clicks stores in some provinces. Police Minister General, Bheki…

PROTEST: Woolworths and Pick n Pay announced that they would remove TRESemmé products from their shelves following an alleged racist hair advert posted by Clicks.Picture: THULANI MBELE

Clicks to remove TRESemmé products, close for a day as senior exec resigns

Clicks has accepted the resignation of a senior executive responsible for an offensive hair product advertisement and said staff responsible for publishing it had been suspended. Clicks also said on Tuesday that it would delist and remove…

Diane Attwell is led out of the Walmer Park Shopping centre shortly after the altercation with EFF supporters. File photo.Image: Eugene Coetzee/HeraldLIVE

WATCH | Walmer Park shopper points gun at protestors

Police removed three people from the Walmer Park shopping centre on Tuesday morning following an argument that saw a 52-year-old woman pull out a gun and point it at protestors outside Clicks. The protests came after the EFF embarked on a…

The SAHRC is conducting its own investigation into the Clicks advertisement debacle which has caused outrage.Image: KEARA EDWARDS
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SAHRC intervenes in Clicks hair row

The SA Human Rights Commission wants to meet Clicks officials to get a better understanding into the health and beauty retailer’s publication of an advertisement on its website that appeared to demean African hair. The advertisement,…

A sign attached to the Clicks at Goodwood Mall in Cape Town.Image: Esa Alexander/Sunday Times

Clicks store trashed, another ‘petrol-bombed’ as EFF protests over hair ad

The Clicks at Saveways Centre in Emalahleni (Witbank) was damaged in a suspected petrol-bombing on Monday morning, while a store in Komani was trashed by EFF protesters. A police source in Emalahleni told TimesLIVE that there was minimal…

EFF leader Julius Malema said his party’s followers should shut down Clicks stores countrywide on Monday if the company does not do so itself.Image: File

EFF tells Clicks to ‘go to hell’ after it explains hair ad was by TRESemmé

The EFF issued a strongly-worded two sentence statement in reply to a four-page letter from lawyers for the retail outlet Clicks, in which they called for the party to desist from its plans to shut down the company’s stores. “Your racist…