Victory for Major Fatima Isaacs as SANDF ends hijab ban

Victory for Major Fatima Isaacs as SANDF ends hijab ban
29 January 2021 1:08 PM
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Legal Resources Centre attorney Amy-Leigh Payne says the South African National Defence Force has agreed to amend its policy.
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has changed its dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear their hijab with their uniforms.
It is a victory for Major Fatima Isaacs, who lead a three-year battle for her religious right to wear her headscarf beneath her military beret.
South Africa has one of the most liberal constitutions in the world yet this is still an issue.
The Legal Resources Centre took up that. Major Isaacs was facing dismissal for woeful defiance and disobeying a lawful command for refusing to remove her hijab.

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