Child Told to Cut Dreadlocks For School in South Africa

Author:
SABC Digital News
Publisher:
SABC Digital News
Publication Date:
22 January 2013
Tags:
Lesotho, South Africa, Education

Free State parents say a school has asked their daughter to cut her dreadlocks or face expulsion. The provincial education department has denied the move discriminated against the family's religious beliefs.

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