Pupils in local schools like Aurora Girls Secondary School have never experienced problems or discrimination about their natural hair, instead, they prefer going to school with their foreign hair and weaves.
Aurora has a dress code that does not allow weaves or artificial hair on pupils to maintain the same image for all the pupils according to Lindi Mankanzane, who teaches at the school. Pupils are allowed to relax their hair and blow them naturally to sustain a similar and neat pupil’s image, while the pupils from Pretoria High protested for the in-discrimination of their natural hair, some pupils in Aurora were warned to never come to school with artificial hair. the only time an exception was and will be made for pupils to come to school with artificial hair is after their matric dance because they have complained that getting artificial hair done is expensive.
While the pupils from Pretoria High protested for the indiscrimination of their natural hair, some pupils in Aurora were warned to never come to school with artificial hair.
After hearing about the protest pupils from Pretoria High held Mankanzane said, “It excited me that pupils and some young people recognize their identity.”
Mavis Sibanda a Grade 11 pupil from the school explained that the society’s status quo taught many young persons that white people are superior, that is why pupils want to wear artificial hair instead of their own natural hair. Sibanda said, “I think pupils who prefer artificial hair over natural hair lack identity and self-esteem.”
