The retailer has thrown in the towel after several failed attempts to improve performance in the north African country.
Solidarity is taking SANBS to court hoping to set a precedent applying to companies that employ "the principle of absolute exclusion based on race".
Amid calls for a boycott of Woolworths, it responded on Sunday with a prominent advertisement in Sunday newspapers, defending its employment policy.
The purple cries of reverse racism slung at Woolworths are misguided at best, writes Khaya Dlanga. But sure, why not … bring on the white cashiers!
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About 600 Woolworths workers face retrenchment or early retirement if they choose to not sign the new flexible-hour contracts.
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Woolworths has significantly reduced its energy usage by investing R10.3-million over three years on an automated load control system.
The ASA has found Woolworths wilfully contravened advertising standards by plagiarising Frankie’s "Good Old Fashioned" phrase.
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/ 23 January 2012
An independent website that monitors prices in retail stores has been denied access to Woolworths, and two researchers were told to leave a shop.
Frankie’s Olde Soft Drink Company has caused a stir alleging that major retailer, Woolworths, has plagiarised their packaging and flavours.
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/ 3 November 2011
The Shoprite Group continues to lead the pack but the other retailers are pulling out all the stops.
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/ 12 October 2011
Woolworths paid its chief executive Ian Moir R13.6-million, including a bonus of R8.25-million, added to his R5.312-million normal annual package.
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Woolworths Holdings says it expects full-year earnings to rise by as much as 30% helped by a recovery in consumer spending in South Africa.
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/ 26 October 2010
A storm erupted on Facebook last week after Woolworths announced that it would be removing Christian magazines from its shelves.
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/ 26 October 2010
Woolworths wasn’t the first company to feel the wrath of the online community in South Africa, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Woolworths posted a 25% rise in full-year profit, helped by a recovering demand in the economy, and said it expects a slow recovery ahead.
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/ 18 February 2010
Woolworths posted a 40% rise in first-half profit, bolstered partly by foreign-exchange gains as consumers battling rein in spending.
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/ 15 September 2009
Woolworths was the first retailer to join the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) water neutral scheme
Woolworths said on Wednesday full-year adjusted earnings rose as sales improved and said it would consider share buybacks.
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/ 19 February 2009
Woolworth’s interim results reflected a further slowdown in consumer spending, especially in the middle and upper income levels.
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/ 9 February 2009
Woolworths has reduced the prices of 245 food lines — some by as much as 29% — with effect from Monday, the listed retail giant said.
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/ 2 February 2009
Woolworths, which collapsed last month, will be reborn as an online store after its brand name was bought by Britain’s biggest home shopping retailer.
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/ 24 November 2008
Woolworths has granted organisational rights to the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union, the listed retailer said on Monday.
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/ 21 October 2008
Woolworths and the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union have reached agreement to resolve an organisational dispute.
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/ 16 October 2008
Negotiations have stalled between retail giant Woolworths and the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union.
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/ 11 October 2008
The Labour Court has granted Woolworths an interdict after the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union breached picketing rules.
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/ 10 October 2008
Retail giant Woolworths said on Friday it was concerned about intimidation of those workers not taking part in an ongoing strike.
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/ 10 October 2008
Woolworths workers will continue picketing on Friday while the retailer considers a counter-proposal submitted by Saccawu.
Hundreds of striking Woolworths employees stormed through a store in Johannesburg’s CBD on Thursday, police said.