Modern racism: the school that’s asking black students to straighten their “afros”

A South African high school has been accused of racism over the way it treats its black students. Pupils at the Pretoria High School for Girls – which used to be whites only under the apartheid regime – say they have been told that they must straighten their “afro” hairstyles and must not speak African languages in school.


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