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School racism probe at Pretoria Girls High(South Africa)

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PRETORIA - Education authorities are to probe Pretoria High School for Girls, after racism allegations surfaced against the institution.

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi is scheduled to visit the school at 10am today (Monday).

Pupils claim they have been subjected to intense racism over a long period of time.

They say their blackness has been discouraged.

The pupils allege that rules are in place to discourage hairstyles such as afros, bantu knots, dreadlocks and braids.

One girl was allegedly barred from writing her exam because her hair was somewhat “spiky” and “unkempt”.

Apart from their hair, the pupils claim they are banned from speaking their mother tongue.




They claim one teacher allegedly called the pupils 'monkeys' while they were singing and chanting in class



https://www.enca.com/south-africa/school-racism-probe-at-pretoria-girls-high




Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi, will launch an investigation into racial discrimination at Pretoria High School for Girls.

This comes after a protest by young girls attending the school who were instructed to straighten their hair and not wear dreadlocks or being barred from writing their exams for failing to do so.

The protest has gone viral, sparking a national conversation regarding racist codes of conduct at Model C and private schools with a #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh

In the petition to the prestigious school, learners claimed that they were often separated if they were gathered in a group and suspected of sinister motives. They also claimed that they were prevented from speaking in vernacular.







http://www.702.co.za/articles/16155...-protest-racism-at-pretoria-girls-high-school
 
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Where is that one poster who was defending South Africa sayings racism isn't bad there?
 
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This young girl has had to change school three times because of her hair
11 days ago



A powerful image of a young girl in school uniform standing up to a man with her arms crossed above her head has gone viral. Her name is Zulaikha Patel. And the image of her defying the policing of black bodies has become iconic. Zulaikha’s actions might have been directed at Pretoria High School for Girls, but her story resonates with many others. We tried talking to her, but she was in class. So we caught up instead with her elder sister AMIRA PATEL, about the protest against the school following its treatment of black pupils.

My parents were upset this morning. My dad was particularly angry and demanded to speak to the headmistress. The school was on shutdown at that moment so parents were not being allowed into the premises. It was tense. My mother has an appointment with the school and governing body regarding Zulaikha’s hair because she’s gotten into trouble for her before. She’s even been in detention for it.

Zulaikha didn’t do anything for her hair to be like that. I can prove it by providing pictures of her when she was a toddler. She still had the afro. Unfortunately when she was younger, we had to cut her hair because the big afro would cause heat rash.

People are shocked that a 13-year-old girl can pull such a movement at a young age but I think it’s been a long time coming.

My mother is also shocked at this point. My sister has gone through a lot of bullying, she’s had to change school three times because of her hair. Other children would laugh at her and say, “Oh my god, your hair looks like a cabbage”. It broke my heart.

She’d cry everyday when I picked her up from school. She’d get home and cry because of how she was treated because of her hair, and say that the school said her hair is a distraction and called it exotic.

I’m kind of glad that she’s done this but I’m also concerned about how it’s going to affect her emotionally at a later stage. I know her, she’s a very fragile person. What led to her to actually start this movement is the pain that she’s felt when looked down upon, constantly feeling like she needed to be accepted or change herself to be accepted.

She’s been sitting in her room for the past two weeks, studying the school code of conduct. She asked me for information on human rights and children’s rights as well. Imagine that? She later shared the information she got on her own and I was surprised. At the time, I didn’t think it was as serious as it is now.

The hair thing was not much of an issue when I was there or maybe we swept it under the carpet. Overall, the school’s code of conduct is biased and one-sided; it’s not a system or book of rules that can fit everybody.

Parents wake up at 5am to stand in the queue and register their children into these schools. We fight for our children to be there because we know these as good schools. I myself went to that school and having gone to that school has paved a lot of ways for me. I want the same thing for my younger sister too.

When such things happen, you begin to question whether this is what we signed up for. Whether this is the best school for girls.
 
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ansatsusha_gouki said:
There are two links in the first post,what's so hard about what I did... :confused:


Matter of fact,those two links are from two different articles and yet you're confused.
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it wasn't directed @ you... @Mask just made a 'new' thread about this and the mods merged it w/ yours
 
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this is why those white folks that refused to bow down to the majority should have caught the first flight back to europe. Blackness should not even be a discussion in this country. Fuck that man. That is THERE homeland.
 
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Black people try to nice away racism this is what you get.Should have just hit the reset button since that's what is eventually going to happen.Waste of 22 years.:smh:
 
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Can anyone explain to me how FUCKING EUROPEANS ever got a stronghold over any country in Africa? We don't have a stronghold on ANY country in Europe, but they can be racist in Africa? Africa. Think about that. The one place we should control.
 
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Is there a law against wigs? That could be a compromise the girls keep their hair and the school can keep up an appearance. Still fucked up though. Even that comprise of wearing wigs is unacceptable.


The reason why they want the girls to straighten their head because it serves to destroy their culture identity, it is more than just appearance. They want them to be consumers with a colonial mindstate.

Fuck those parasitic thieving racist squatters in SA for telling indigenous Africans in their homeland what is acceptable.
 
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THE DRIZZY said:
Is there a law against wigs? That could be a compromise the girls keep their hair and the school can keep up an appearance. Still fucked up though. Even that comprise of wearing wigs is unacceptable.


The reason why they want the girls to straighten their head because it serves to destroy their culture identity, it is more than just appearance. They want them to be consumers with a colonial mindstate.

Fuck those parasitic thieving racist squatters in SA for telling indigenous Africans in their homeland what is acceptable.
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Why should a 13 year old have to wear a wig in the heat of Africa to submit to a standard that does not apply to our hair in it's natural state? She shouldn't have to cover it, or be subjected to chemicals or heat damage to straighten it. Besides, she fought and won.
 
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Camille said:
Why should a 13 year old have to wear a wig in the heat of Africa to submit to a standard that does not apply to our hair in it's natural state? She shouldn't have to cover it, or be subjected to chemicals or heat damage to straighten it. Besides, she fought and won.
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Reading is fundamental. Did I not admit by my very own words it was still unacceptable:confused:? I agree with you but please make sure you comprehend before responding emotionally:cool:.
 
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THE DRIZZY said:
Reading is fundamental. Did I not admit by my very own words it was still unacceptable:confused:? I agree with you but please make sure you comprehend before responding emotionally:cool:.
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I read what you said. How does that change what I said? I never said or meant to imply that you were ok with it, but you suggested compromise. Compromise would be admitting to some degree that the school is right, that black attributes in their natural state are bad, defective or inferior in some manner, and reinforce the idea that the girls need to adopt/submit to, as you put it, a colonial mindset. It's all about controlling black bodies. I don't feel she should have to compromise and technically there isn't a dispute anymore since the school agreed to their demands. I say technically because that still doesn't mean the school won't try to target those girls in some manner.
 

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