TimesLive reports that Spur CEO Pierre van Tonder has accused trade union Solidarity of trying to score "political points" after the union's CE, Dirk Hermann, penned an open letter saying he had "lost his appetite" for the restaurant franchise.  

Spur has faced a backlash from Afrikaans customers who have boycotted the restaurants in protest at the way a confrontation between a white man and a black woman was handled.  The incident happened at Texamo Spur at the Glen Shopping Mall in Gauteng in March and the man was banned from all Spur restaurants.  Hermann wrote in a letter to Spur COO Mark Farrelly that loyal white customers were tired of being bullied and portrayed as right-wingers.  He said he was not boycotting Spur, but that the incident “deserves a slap on the wrist from the public.”  He accused the franchise of dismissing loyal customers.  Van Tonder said that the franchise stood by its decision.

• Read this report by Petru Saal in full at TimesLive
• Read Hermann’s letter in Afrikaans at Maroela Media

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