Authorities in Zambia have closed down a Chinese owned barbershop over discrimination allegations against black people and displaying their prices in Chinese contrary to the Food and Health Act.
According to Authorities, they received a whistle blower that Angels Barbershop which is located at Acardes Mall is discriminating black people.
According to the whistle blower, he took his son to cut hair but was later told that K300 is the price just to put him off.
When he agreed to pay, the owners of the barbershop changed their mind and told him that they are closed and asked him to leave.
Reports indicate that when the authorities went to the barbershop for a fact finding mission they found a ‘closed’ sign but noticed that there was a Chinese inside cutting his hair.
“They did not recognize us as we had a mask on. We pretended wanting to have our hair cut and they said “We Closed’.
“Upon inspecting their price board, we noticed also that nearly everything was labelled in Chinese writings and not English as prescribed by the Food & Health Act,”
Meanwhile, the license has been retrieved from the Chinese owners and closed the business ‘indefinitely’
“A formal sign closure notice from LCC has since been sent to them,” reads the statement.
Zambia authorities have however said that they will not condone any “investor that operates segregating or discriminating customers or employees based on their color of the skin or pricing in other foreign languages other than English which is the constitutionally prescribed official language for Zambia.”
Zambian citizenry has therefore been asked to blow their whistles louder to our office for any such similar illegal conduct as proved at Angels Barbershop.
