Watch! Ndebele Activist Thando Mahlangu Turned Away At Clicks For Wearing His Traditional Attire

Watch! Ndebele Activist Thando Mahlangu Turned Away At Clicks For Wearing His Traditional Attire. Clicks is at it again. Back in 2020, the store caused an outrage on social media with their hair advert. The ad was of black women wearing their natural hair and they were compared them to other pictures of white women also with their natural hair. “Frizzy, dull, dry, damaged,” that is how the black hair was described, whereas Caucasian hair was described as, “Normal hair,” on the ad.

Clicks was then dragged on social media, with a lot of people boycotting the store. EFF, closed down many Clicks stores across the country. Clicks then removed the images and issued an apology, accepting the mistake that they have made. It looks like they have gotten themselves in another scandal, after turning away a customer who came shopping wearing Ndebele traditional clothes. Thando Mahlangu, who is a Ndebele Culture Activist, was told he is not properly dressed after entering Clicks proudly dressed in traditional attire.

The store manager made it clear that Mahlangu was not decently dressed, as such he shouldn’t be let inside the shop. The store that he was turned away from is the Boulders Shopping Center

“Saddest reality in Africa, I was subjected to inside the @Clicks_SA store at The Boulders Shopping Center. By the center manager, who said it was his shopping complex. I was told that I’m wearing inappropriate I must go & Omega risk solutions harassed me #NdebeleTwitter,” Mahlangu shared his ordeal.

This is not the first time he went through this kind of treatment. A few years ago, Mahlangu was allegedly publicly humiliated and kicked out of the Gautrain station in Johannesburg because his traditional garb was deemed “inappropriate”. Mahlangu had taken the train from Pretoria to Johannesburg and went about his errands. On his return, Mahlangu was told he was no longer welcome aboard the train. Although Gautrain apologized, he demanded R1.5 million in damages for humiliation.