Crowthorne Christian Academy closed after dreadlocks row as EFF pickets outside school

According to Sowetan, the school told parents via a text message that it would shut its doors indefinitely.

“especially ones stinking of racism” after the removal of the 13-year-old pupil for wearing dreadlocks. The pupil’s parents filmed the incident after the school ordered the pupil leave the school to remove her dreadlocks. The pupil’s sister had taken to social media to show interactions between the school and her parents. It appeared the school had been asking since the end of July for the pupil to remove her dreadlocks, but the parents refused, informing the principal that dreadlocks were natural hair.

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