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Social media drags Minnie Dlamini for ‘ghetto’ hair caption

Minnie Dlamini-Jones has been trending on social media since Tuesday evening this week…but for all the wrong reasons.

This time the television personality is in hot water for her choice of words for a photograph of herself wearing her hair in “Bantu knots”.

Dlamini-Jones captioned the picture “I can go from lady to ghetto in a second”.

Bantu knots are a very popular hairstyle with rich African roots. The word “bantu” universally translates to “people” among many African languages, and it categorises around 400 ethnic groups in Africa.

These knots are also referred to as Zulu knots because South Africa’s Zulu people, a Bantu ethnic group, may have started the hairstyle. The look also goes by the name of Nubian knots.

Celebrities, such as Rihanna, Ciara, Boity, Ebonee Davis and many others, also rocked Bantu knots.

Tweeps call out Minnie

Dlamini-Jones’s caption didn’t sit too well with Tweeps who didn’t waste any time to call her out for the caption.

Dlamini-Jones tries to put out the fire

After seeing her Instagram post trend on Twitter, the 30-year-old presenter tried to put out the fire.

She uploaded the same picture on Twitter and tweaked the caption, but it was too late…She was already in trouble.

One might say South Africans are overreacting, but the Becoming Mrs Jones star hit a nerve.

But, when you consider it, perhaps the reaction is not surprising. After all, black women have often faced discrimination at work and elsewhere for choosing to wear their natural hair.

Schools put spotlight on hair

A list of several recent incidents at South African schools also highlights this issue.

  1. Who can forget Zulaika Patel? She and her schoolmates led a  protest in 2016 against the Pretoria High School for Girls’ policy on hair. CNN reported that teachers had told the pupils their afro hair was “exotic” and needed to be tamed. It was implied that the girls’ hair needed to be straightened or tied back and not worn as afros.
  2. The pupils at Sans Souci Girls’ High School in Cape Town joined Pretoria High School for Girls in protest against the schools’ codes of conduct and hair policies. The pupils said teachers banned natural hair on school premises. They also said they were penalised for speaking black South African languages at school.
  3. In  2017, Johannesburg private school Windsor House Academy expelled a group of black girls because of their hair. According to the school principal, they “looked like they were on school holidays rather than on school premises”.
  4. Pupils at Victoria Park High School in Nelson Mandela Bay marched against racism and cultural discrimination in August, with natural hair allegedly one of the issues.
  5. This week parents of pupils at St Michael’s School for Girls in Bloemfontein accompanied their children in a protest to address issues with school hair regulations.


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