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3rd Degree:
Episode title: It's just hair isn't it?
Broadcast date: Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Teaser ....For black women the hair debate is a heated one. Bring it up in any salon and it will cause an uproar, do you prefer the natural look or does the ‘fake’ weave do it for you?
The politics of personal identity are deeply intertwined in black female hair debate. It is the site of great contestation but as Cosmopolitan editor Sbu Mpungose says in this debate you can't win “when you choose the weave you are labelled a sell out and when you go natural you come across as ungroomed”.
If the debate of personal identity is not enough to contest with, there is also the opinion of men like Huge Masakela who is reported to have said that he would not take a picture with a women in a weave as he feels it is un-African.
This week 3rd Degree talks to influential black women on both sides of the debate from outspoken TV presenter and poet Lebo Mashile to the self proclaimed weave queen Bonang Matheba. We also get eNews senior journalist Nikiwe Bikitsha to weigh in on the debate.
3rd Degree is on e.tv and the eNews channel on Tuesdays at 21h30.