Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
21 January 2016 - 02:30
A Rastafarian boy was finally able to start high school yesterday, a week later than his Grade 8 classmates, after a row about his dreadlocks. Azania Stofile says he was barred from Bulumko Secondary in Khayelitsha after a teacher told him last week that "boys were not allowed to wear long hair".The school admitted Azania after a meeting of the governing body and a protest yesterday by the Rastafarian United Front.
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