THE Lusaka High a court has dismissed a petition in which a Rastafarian father had 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 wanted a declaration that the state’s continued insistence that the minor must cut off his dreadlocks contrary to the dictates of his religion, in order for him to attend classes at Kasama Boys Secondary, was ultra vires and a violation of the Minor’s fundamental human right to freedom of conscience and religion as guaranteed under Article 11 and 19 of...
