The Lusaka High Court has dismissed a petition in which a Rastafarian father sued the state after Kasama Boys Secondary School refused to allow his son to attend classes with his dreadlocks.
The minor’s father, Nathan Mubanga, and House of Rastafari Secretary General, Samson Nyirenda, had cited the Attorney General as the respondent in the matter.
The duo sought a declaration that the state’s continued insistence that the minor cut off his dreadlocks—contrary to the dictates of his religion—in order to attend classes at Kasama Boys Secondary School was ultra vires and a viólation of the minor’s fundamental húman right to freedom of cónscience and religion, as guaranteed under Article 11 and 19 of the Constitution.
Source: News Diggers