Advocate Carlo Viljoen brought an application on behalf of hundreds of hairdressers who were wiped out financially due to the ban on hairdressing under Level 4.
An urgent court bid by financially distressed hairdressers to be allowed to go back to work was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Thursday.
This after the Employers Organisation for Hairdressing Cosmetology and Beauty put together a petition to reopen salons, but the government did not budge. He said he was thus convinced hair professionals were capable of and ready to implement proper safety and hygiene protocols if they were permitted to operate legally.The alternative to legal trade, he warned, was an “uncontrolled black market”.
Sam Hill, who co-founded the Hair & Beauty Industry Support Foundation, said it was supporting more than 1,400 people countrywide who are in dire need in the hair, make-up, beauty and massage industry, adding it was receiving more applications for help every day.
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