When Spur subsequently offered an apology to the woman, and banned the white man involved, a ‘white boycott’ began, with a number of Facebook groups saying that Spur was racist against white people. Over the weekend, Kimon de Greef and Norimitsu Onishi, writing for the New York Times, revisited the topic. “If we had money,” he said, “we’d have got out.”Let’s move on from van Eeden (unhappy when Apartheid ended? In response to the New York Times story, and after being approached by TimesLIVE, Spur spokesperson Moshe Apleni was pretty tight-lipped:“We told The New York Times that we would not comment, but they went ahead with the story. The Facebook group ‘Boycott Spur Steak Ranches‘, which has just over 2 500 members, is still live, although it hasn’t posted since October 2017.