Hoërskool Delmas defends hair policy as 'administrative mistake'
Hoërskool Delmas in Mpumalanga has labelled its hair policy that is causing an outrage on social media an “administrative mistake”.
The school has come under fire for what looks like a hair policy that forbids learners from wearing various hairstyles, including dreadlocks, Afros and hair extensions.
It’s January and we are already exhausted.
— More Than Just Hair 🧞♀️ (@neferuhaircare) January 16, 2020
How such racist hair rules for black girls IN AFRICA exist in 2020 is beyond me and honestly shouldn’t be a thing.
(School in mention is Hoerskool Delmas) pic.twitter.com/7eWTRdQR73
"Unfortunately the school made a mistake in issuing the wrong set of rules, it's an administrative mistake. We will send out the correct ones very soon," says principal Kas Badenhorst.
The Mpumalanga Department of Education has called for a review of the policy.
"We have ordered the governing body of the school to immediately suspend its code of conduct for learners, as it relates to hairstyles for learners,” says spokesperson Jasper Zwane.
"The department further directed the school to start a process to review its policy on the matter in question within the next two months.”