FRED KHUMALO | Racist notions of blacks, money and corruption run deep in our beautiful land
The insinuation in Bakos's comment is simply that a black person who has some money must have obtained it through some shortcut way linked to the government.
When I was growing up, Bakos was exclusively targeting well-to-do white South Africans. If they wanted to buy furniture, black South Africans had to go to Ellerines, Town Talk and, to a lesser extent, Frasers furnishers.Through this set-up, a person wanting to buy a lounge suite that cost R1,000 but couldn't afford it would be allowed to enter into an agreement with the store and put down a deposit. The balance would be paid in instalments over 24 months.
My impression is that Bakos Brothers suddenly changed tack when they realised there was more money in the black market post-1994. They had to capitalise on the burgeoning market of so-called black diamonds. Nothing wrong with that. The reality, Mr Bakos, is that South Africans, black and white, are all under financial pressure. Because of the changing socio-economic dynamics, black people now constitute a huge bulk of Bakos's clientele.
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