Black girls in tears at Pretoria school hair protest
29 August 2016
Pretoria - Tears flowed as black Pretoria High School for Girls pupils on Monday told of alleged racism and abuse suffered at the hands of white teachers.
“I have a natural afro, but a teacher told me I need to comb my hair because it looks like a birds nest,” one girl told Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi, who visited the school on Monday morning.
At the centre of the protests is the section of the school's code of conduct relating to hairstyles, which black girls claim discriminates against them.
The girl told Lesufi she was given a brush and told to neaten her hair. She was told to look at herself in a mirror.