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Hair today, gone tomorrow? Schools urged to review dress code amid row over Afros

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Schools across the country have made headlines for taking action against pupils wearing their hair in an Afro.

Pupils at Malibu High School in Cape Town are protesting against a dress code that prohibits them from wearing hair naturally. Stock photo.Three years after a national furore over natural hair at Pretoria High School for Girls the same dress code row is raging in Cape Town.keep their"outrageous" hair in plaits or tied up. They are demanding that the dress code policy be reviewed.

Western Cape education department spokesperson Bronagh Hammond said that the department had asked all schools to review their dress codes. Malibu High School principal David Links declined to comment on whether the school would change its policy, when contacted by TimesLIVE.

 

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