Image via Instagram/@minniedlamini
Television personality Minnie Dlamini-Jones has been trending since sharing a snap where she suggests Bantu knots are ‘ghetto’.
Image via Instagram/@minniedlamini
Minnie Dlamini-Jones has been trending on social media since Tuesday evening this week…but for all the wrong reasons.
This time the television personality is in hot water for her choice of words for a photograph of herself wearing her hair in “Bantu knots”.
Dlamini-Jones captioned the picture “I can go from lady to ghetto in a second”.
Bantu knots are a very popular hairstyle with rich African roots. The word “bantu” universally translates to “people” among many African languages, and it categorises around 400 ethnic groups in Africa.
These knots are also referred to as Zulu knots because South Africa’s Zulu people, a Bantu ethnic group, may have started the hairstyle. The look also goes by the name of Nubian knots.
Celebrities, such as Rihanna, Ciara, Boity, Ebonee Davis and many others, also rocked Bantu knots.
Dlamini-Jones’s caption didn’t sit too well with Tweeps who didn’t waste any time to call her out for the caption.
After seeing her Instagram post trend on Twitter, the 30-year-old presenter tried to put out the fire.
She uploaded the same picture on Twitter and tweaked the caption, but it was too late…She was already in trouble.
One might say South Africans are overreacting, but the Becoming Mrs Jones star hit a nerve.
But, when you consider it, perhaps the reaction is not surprising. After all, black women have often faced discrimination at work and elsewhere for choosing to wear their natural hair.
A list of several recent incidents at South African schools also highlights this issue.