Dreadlocks have grown in the popularity in South Africa, so popular is the twisted hair that it has now spiralled into crime, with people being robbed of their hair writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.

South African thieves are walking around with knives, robbing people of their dreadlocks they’ve taken years to grow and selling them on the streets. It’s known that dreadlocks take a lot of ...

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In cultures hostile to African hairstyles, so-called dreadlocks have long been a countercultural symbol for those who stand in opposition to oppressive ideals ...

In his newest novel, Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, Bert Ashe uses his own hair-locking experience to explain the history of dreadlocks, and unpack complicated issues of identity, gender, and ...

Dreadlocks have grown in the popularity in South Africa, so popular is the twisted hair that it has now spiralled into crime, with people being robbed of their hair writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.