The situation at Pretoria Girls High School has escalated with political youth movements gathering outside the main gate. Members of SASCO‚ COSAS‚ the African National Congress Youth League and Economic Freedom Fighters tried to force their way into the school premises after the school's management barred parents from coming in to fetch their children.This comes as Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi is currently holding a meeting with school girls who wrote a letter to him informing him about mistreatment at the school.Pretoria Girls High protest about more than just black girls’ hair‚ says pupil’s guardianA parent at Pretoria Girls High School says the issue at the school is not just about hair‚ but about “plain racism”. The group of youth organisations were singing struggle songs and accused management standing behind the school gates of perpetuating the oppression of black people."I'm here to stand in solidarity with the girls because I went to a model-C school and I didn't realise how oppressed I was until this morning when I was also told not to speak my home language and we would get detention if we were heard speaking any other language besides English and Afrikaans. We can't be fighting such battles in this country as pupils‚ it is not acceptable‚" said a student activist who requested to be anonymous.Black school girls claim that they have been subjected to racism and that their blackness has been discouraged. They added that school rules forbid African hairstyles such as afros‚ Bantu knots‚ dreadlocks and braids.The also claim they are not allowed to speak their mother tongue and that a teacher called them monkeys when they were singing and chanting in class. Lesufi is due to have a meeting with parents‚ management as well as school principal Karen Du Toit.Newly-elected Democratic Alliance Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga made a surprise visit to the school and joined Lesufi on the panel...