1 reviews | Active since Jul 2018
Toti Test Centre Head Scarf Humiliation.
On the 19/07/2018 I had a very bad and humiliating experience at Amanzimtoti test centre yesterday I went there to write my learners test and the way I was treated by a White lady who was our instructor was extremely rude and unprofessional. Is it fair to give instructions while shouting and the way she shouted at me I was really humiliated and embarrassed when she shouted me to take off my head scarf. I am a Black African married woman and in my culture and religion wearing a head scarf is very important and to be shouted in front of the whole class to take off your head scarf I really did not understand how is my head scarf going to affect my test. Writting a learners test and taking off my head scarf why exactly was I told to take it off and I was not asked politely but I was shouted at as if she was talking to one crazy person. Is it the rule at all testing ground to take off some of your clothes if your are there to write? Is it fair to go against your culture and beliefs if you at a testing centre. Is it fair to be shouted like that while you are still going to write how are you going to pass that learners test and pass after being humiliated and embarrassed like that because the time you disappointed you loose concentration and it easy to make mistakes and fail your test. What happened to me yesterday was a very bad and humiliating experience and I don't wish it to happen to someone else, in South Africa we have different races and different culture so why would the someone not respect my culture being a White lady does not give the right to disrespect my culture as I am a Black African lady. Mama Winnie Mandela always wore her head scarf and we everybody during her passing promoted the wearing of head scarf. And that also showed that it's our Black African Culture to wear head scarf if you are a women especially married women. Even the photographs I submitted and the one on my learners licence, I'm wearing head scarf, why did they accept those photos if it's against their rules. Why was I shouted and humiliated in public to disrespect my culture, taking off my head scarf. Not even once I heard that Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was shouted at to take off her head scarf, really I'm really hurt and so disappointed. Testing center contact number : 031- ********** / **********
