South Africa: Students speak out against ban on natural afro hair
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Gabon’s Ali Bongo hits back at international criticism over the presidential vote, telling opposition leader Jean Ping to take his demand for a recount to the country's constitutional court. And there’s growing outrage in South Africa over black students' hair, after the director of a prestigious girls’ school in Pretoria was fired over the school’s decades-old conduct policy. Our guest on the topic, associate professor Hlonipha Mokoena, tells us why the uproar is happening now.