Pupils from Esizibeni Sivananda Vaswani School after they were allegedly denied access to the school.The South African Human Rights Commission is holding a public engagement in Durban with members of the Nazareth Baptist Church and the community regarding the right to freedom of religion.
The engagement, being held at the commission's office in Durban, comes after a south coast school principal's directive to followers of the church, also known as the Shembe church, were asked to cut their hair. Earlier this month, the commission invited representatives from the church, department of education, principals, chairpersons of school governing bodies, the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities and other stakeholders to the dialogue.
“This engagement emanates from the number of complaints the commission receives relating to learners who belong to the Nazareth Baptist Church being forced to cut their hair. This practice/request is against the religious and cultural practices of their religion and is inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution,” said the commission.
The commission said it has previously resolved these complaints by engaging directly with the relevant schools.
Why not? If Muslims can go to church every Friday for 2 hours and workplaces allow that, why can’t Shembe religion followers be allowed to have hair? Animal farm of a country we live
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HRC in KZN to engage education and religious bodies on Shembe rightsThe South African Human Rights Commission is holding a public engagement in Durban with members of the Nazareth Baptist Church and the community regarding the right to freedom of religion.
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