Dozens of activists picket outside Clicks Pharmacy stores across South Africa after the retailer showed ads describing Black hair as 'dull.'
Protests forced more than 400 stores of South Africa's biggest pharmacy chain to close on Monday, September 7, after a controversial"racist" hair advertisement provoked widespread outrage.
Clicks said that protests were reported at 425 of its stores, some of which were vandalized, and it was"unable to estimate the total damage to stores given the ongoing protest action." The South African Human Rights Commission launched an investigation on Monday into the Clicks advert, which it said had"elicited strong emotions and protests from the general public.""They must lose revenue, they must lose profits because of their racism," said EFF vice president Floyd Shivambu, speaking in front of one of the largest stores in Johannesburg's upmarket Sandton business and shopping district – considered Africa's richest square mile.
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