https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54055814Protesters have forced several stores of a South African health and beauty company to close, after it ran a hair advertisement they deemed racist.
The Clicks advert had pictures of African hair labelled dry, dull and damaged, while an example of white hair was described as fine and flat.
Opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) called the advert "racist" and "dehumanising".
Its leader Julius Malema called for all Clicks stores to be closed.
The company has threatened legal action against the political party but Mr Malema urged his supporters to be "combat ready" and said the EFF wouldn't be "intimidated by threats".
"The implications of this are that black identity exists as inferior to the identity of white people. It is an assertion that white standards of beauty are to be aspired to and features of black represent damage, decay and abnormality," the EFF said in a statement.
