Watch: Teacher ‘forcibly’ combs black students’ hair – causing a riot online
Some of South Africa’s top politicians have got involved in a row over a viral video on Monday. The brief clip, which controversially shows a teacher running a comb through learners’ hair, has enraged both Panyaza Lesufi, the Gauteng Education MEC, and EFF Commissar Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. However, not everyone is upset with the footage.
A comb too far? Viral video splits opinion
The footage, taken from an as-yet unnamed school in Mzansi, shows a female teacher holding her class outside of the school gates. She makes a row of boys like up to get their hair combed, disrupting the natural state of the students’ locks.
The forcible brushing continues, as another boy assumes the position. The decision to allow natural hairstyles in educational facilities has been something of a sore subject in SA. Meanwhile, MEC Lesufi branded the act as ‘totally unacceptable’, and has asked his colleagues to verify the video. You can see the contentious combing here…
Watch: Teacher combs students’ hair before school
Ku rough
— Gun City Beats (@thatosethunya1) March 22, 2021to be a learner pic.twitter.com/18XQXrOfkQ
Mbuyiseni Ndlozi ‘tearing his hair out’ over school video
Needless to say, Mr. Ndlozi didn’t mince his words in reaction to the clip, going as far as to label the incident ‘child abuse’. He slammed the unidentified school for ‘impairing the dignity’ of the learners, too:
“This is child abuse, black self-hate, and definitively illegal. This woman must be found and put to the book. You can’t teach kids to hate their hair… NO! Her treatment of black hair is the same as that of white racists who tell black kids to remove or hide their Afros!”
“It’s the indignity of standing at school gates, violently combing kinds’ hair! Why not write to their parents? Why not ask kids to do it themselves in a private space? In anyway, why the hell must they comb? Will it make them more teachable? Why humiliate them because of hair?”
- – However, the Red Beret was met by several robust counter arguments…
Code of conduct Ndlozi….I'm sure you've heard of that before
— Boy Next Doorᴺᴹ® (@teebang_thabang) March 22, 2021
It goes beyond that Dr Ndlozi
— Zaga zendoda (@Simisomsotraman) March 22, 2021school kids need to be taught to be neat and look appropriate for school, no self hate here. Once they develop certain hairstyles it goes into their heads, this is the same reason why school uniforms where created, everyone must be treated equally
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