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Hairdressing is legal again, but under strict regulations. Image: Esa Alexander

EXPLAINED| This is how personal care services must operate under advanced level 3 lockdown

Rules have been put in place for the reopening of personal care services‚ including hair and nail salons‚ after businesses have been closed for more than two months. From Friday‚ all salons and tattoo and massage parlours got the green…

There are about 90,000 people active in the hair and beauty sector, a R300bn industry. Image: IAVAN PIJOOS

Hairdressers’ court challenge stymied, for now, DA blames Dlamini-Zuma for delay

The much awaited legal showdown between the DA and co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma over the closure of hair and beauty salons was off to a false start on Friday. Lawyers for the parties…

Angela Khosa at her hair salon in Soweto. The DA says the blanket prohibition on the entire personal-care industry is irrational, arbitrary and ‘subject to the whims of some unidentified minister’.Image: GETTY IMAGES/ DANIEL BORN

DA goes to court to save ‘thousands of livelihoods’ in beauty industry

The DA has taken the government to court over the continued lockdown on hairdressers and other personal-care service providers. DA MP Dean Macpherson filed urgent papers in the Western Cape High Court on Monday to have the ban and…

Trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel said hair, nail and other personal care businesses require additional measures because the industry involves direct contact with customers. Image: GCIS

Government to ‘turn its attention’ to hairdressers, salons under level 3

A solution for hairdressers, nail salons and other personal care businesses may soon be in sight, with trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel saying focus would now shift to this sector. He said because these businesses cannot take…

Hairdressers want to trade under level 4 lockdown. File photo.Image: THAPELO MOREBUDI/The Sunday Times.

Hairdressers want to open their doors again as virus slashes incomes

Hairdressers are lobbying for a return to work as their financial losses mount during the coronavirus lockdown. Beauty salons do not form part of the essential service list as per the national disaster regulations, but the industry —…