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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…

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…

Finance minister Tito Mboweni will deliver the budget speech this afternoonImage: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMES

‘Anarchy is not the motive force of transformation’: Tito Mboweni on Clicks attacks

Finance minister Tito Mboweni has taken exception to the Clicks shutdown led by the EFF. The beauty and health retailer made headlines after its stores were trashed following outrage over a racist advert. The now-removed advert showed the…

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,…