Woolworths Sets The Record Straight On Bee And Food Donations

We want to be very clear: Woolworths will never deny food donations to a person in need based on their race.

Woolworths has denied social media claims suggesting that charities receiving surplus food donations from the company must agree not to distribute them to white homeless individuals due to Black Economic Empowerment BEE regulations.

The claim was made by Saxon African, a right-wing account, which alleged that BEE rules restrict the distribution of food to white homeless people.

In South Africa. If you do charity with large companies like Woolworths, distributing end of life food to the homeless. You have to sign a contract ensuring that it's not given to white homeless people because of their BEE regulations, it wrote on X.

Woolworths responded, stating the claim was false and labelled it as fake news. They also noted that the account had blocked them from replying.