Dis-Chem not allowed to hire anymore white people for now

LCBXX

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Like spur, dischem stores are owner run, most store owners are white
Boycotting dischem stores for whats happening at head office is just as stupid
Exactly.

If only these same boycott-caller fall over themselves to support their local small-business pharmacies.

"But their meds, multivitamins and protein powders or soooo overpriced. Greedy bastards!"
 

TheChamp

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Would those be the laws and regulations that just about saw all the SOEs fail, causing our country to steadily fail with employment at an all time high? Leading by example? Oxymoron spotted! Laws that literally say wealth redistribution, nothing about wealth creation?

Something something .... "until you run out of other people's money". Let's rather blame apartheid, CovID ...

But hey ... maybe this time. @RonSwanson - your cue for the fork and wall socket. We have load shedding, maybe this time ...
They are the same laws and regulations under which Froneman and other executives were able to pocket hundreds of millions of Rands from the success of their companies.
 

porchrat

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You don't agree with it but you believe businesses should go out of their way to comply and hold each other accountable.

That's like saying you don't agree with etolls but still paying it every month. Empty words which is hard to take seriously.
I don't believe that either and have in fact expressed the exact opposite in this thread on multiple occasions. So far you're 0 for 2 on comprehension. Do you even read my posts? Perhaps just stop responding if you haven't bothered to read what my position is.
 

Mike Hoxbig

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Then the owners should speak up.
Why should they? They're in the business of making money, and that means complying with the laws of the country.

Some shop owner taking a principled stand isn't going to affect government policy, but it will affect their business...
 

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Oh I agree with you 100%. I'd be keen to see these companies mass protest the system and just stop complying with this BEE stuff. Just employ the best people for the job and ignore colour entirely.

I would personally do my best to do business with those companies.

That currently doesn't happen though. So I see no point in boycotting one specific company in a sea of compliance.
The thing is, who's going to be first. That one will get made an example of in many ways. If businesses agree and coordinate, a myriad of other laws will be applied.
 

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Why should they? They're in the business of making money, and that means complying with the laws of the country.

Some shop owner taking a principled stand isn't going to affect government policy, but it will affect their business...
That is fine. Not my money though.
 

porchrat

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The thing is, who's going to be first. That one will get made an example of in many ways. If businesses agree and coordinate, a myriad of other laws will be applied.
For sure. The likelihood of anyone not complying is low. It's corporate suicide.

The only way I see it happening is if these big companies stand together. Hard to dish out punishments when it's everybody not complying. Highly unlikely though.
 

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For sure. The likelihood of anyone not complying is low. It's corporate suicide.

The only way I see it happening is if these big companies stand together. Hard to dish out punishments when it's everybody not complying. Highly unlikely though.
It would be very ironic if they started holding hands and standing in solidarity now after all the years of doing business under the apartheid regime and not once taking a stand, it's really not worth the trouble.
 

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It would be very ironic if they started holding hands and standing in solidarity now after all the years of doing business under the apartheid regime and not once taking a stand, it's really not worth the trouble.
They should have stood together back then too.

It was wrong then and it's wrong now.
 

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For sure. The likelihood of anyone not complying is low. It's corporate suicide.

The only way I see it happening is if these big companies stand together. Hard to dish out punishments when it's everybody not complying. Highly unlikely though.
The thing that @rietrot seems to not understand was my point.
 

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Cool. Where are you going to get your stuff from? Takealot/Clicks/Checkers/Spar/PnP/Massmart? Guess what...
I have a white takealot driver/delivery person. Fully support them.

When did checkers put out a memo against hiring any white people? Please post that so I can boycott them to if that is the case.

Have a pharmacy near me that's not part of any chain that I will use more.
 

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Did I mention black or white ?

Did I stutter ?

I said you were likely to argue with cases of abuse being a minority makes corporal punishment acceptable according to you and your logic, completely ignoring the studies that show differently and most cases of abuse go completely unreported as shown by the link provided.
Corporal punishment works.
To argue otherwise is just plain stupid.
The "studies" you keep referring to is a load of BS.
Speaking of minority, you haven't provided a single piece of evidence of pro corporal punishment studies, unironically I am willing to bet, not a single one will list the cons and only the pros of it. Majority is against it, go figure and why is that. ?
Not everyone is so stupid to believe this/these BS "studies".
Speaking of race, unironically studies show black children were/is more likely to suffer abuse and beatings in general
I don't see any irony.
Could it be that you don't know what it (irony) is?
You have only ever argued it "works"
Yes, because it definitely works.
based on your personal experience,
Yes, that and common sense.
completely ignored the facts that show otherwise,
No - nobody is ignoring any facts.
What they are ignoring are the BS "studies".
and I am the dumbass,
Well, yes.
who would have thought empirical studies that show otherwise would make me a dumbass.
LOL @ "empirical studies".
I find that rather presumptuous and a common theme on this forum when someone has a difference of opinion that they can physically back up in most cases,
If you knew what irony was, you would see how ironic this is.
studies and evidence, often being flatly ignored to serve their own purposes and agenda.
Again, BS "studies" are just that - they are BS "studies".
It is almost always moronically one sided most of the time, that people like you with their warped reality aren't able to see past their own noses
Oh, the irony.
and willing to only accept their imaginary colluded narrative
More irony.
above empirical evidence
Those studies are not "empirical evidence" - it's BS.
that is down played and most often called a bias viewpoint,
Unlike you of course.
with attempts of this new thing called cancel culture, always finding new angles to argue and completely glazing over important points that don't fit your narrative with your convoluted ideology and reality no one person is right more than me, because my personal experience trumps global impressions of humanity as a whole on all subject matters.
Huh?
I continually question ironically the notion that charles darwin was wrong,
I again don't see the irony.
You should really make an effort to try and grasp the meaning of the word.
and that some lesser life forms currently inhabiting this plain of existence is devolving right before my eyes
This would certainly explain the increase of stupidity that we are currently witnessing.
A case in point would be the "there are more than two genders" thing.
and the utter dissapointment that it will roughly take another 4 billions years to completely snuff out this solar system we call home.
You want it to happen sooner?
Why do you hate humanity and yourself so much?
 

Vorastra

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I have a white takealot driver/delivery person. Fully support them.

When did checkers put out a memo against hiring any white people? Please post that so I can boycott them to if that is the case.

Have a pharmacy near me that's not part of any chain that I will use more.
Not sure why @Mike Hoxbig is going on with this retarded message of "just take it bro, lol"

Hopefully he is affected by direct and obvious racism one day. Seems like this passive racism doesn't phase him.
 

konfab

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It would be very ironic if they started holding hands and standing in solidarity now after all the years of doing business under the apartheid regime and not once taking a stand, it's really not worth the trouble.
You want to see irony?

Their corporate page says this:

Our Head Office is based in Midrand, Johannesburg, and we employ over 18 500 full-time and part-time employees. We believe that in today’s dynamic and continuously changing world, our human capital is what differentiates us from our competitors. We give our employees training to ensure that they have the greatest possible support to do their work and develop themselves as individuals.

Their employment policy states that no white person will be promoted because of their group identity.

And I highly doubt that a group of a few pharmacies owned by Jews during apartheid was the center of all racial discrimination against black people.
https://www.sajr.co.za/lynette-and-ivan-saltzman-the-chemistry-of-dis-chem/

I mean just read this grand defence of Israeli products the CEO made against BDS:
“So far as your stated intention of boycotting Dis-Chem goes, that is your decision: we live in a free country. However, you must be consistent, if your gesture is to have meaning. I hope you don’t use an Intel chip in your computer: it was invented in Israel.

“I hope you stay in good health because if you need surgery against a heart attack, you must boycott the procedure: the stent was invented in Israel! Likewise, I hope you are never prescribed a patch for diabetes. If you are an asthmatic you may have to use a new inhaler invented in Israel.

“Israel has given the world drip irrigation which is widely adopted in SA. You should boycott all fruit and vegetables grown by this method. Check carefully what you boycott.

https://www.sajr.co.za/be-consistent-in-boycott-demands-saltzman-tells-moosa/

But his own employees? The people who made him all his money? They just get thrown under the bus.
 
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