High school students in South Africa have protested against black girls being forced by teachers to arrange their hair differently, alleging that they are being made to follow strict style rules that are racist and discriminatory.
A student told Al Jazeera on Monday that protests erupted at the Pretoria High School for Girls after a 13-year-old student was disciplined recently for writing an essay on black women suffering at the hands of "white privilege".
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