Why do South African teachers still threaten children with a beating? A psychologist explains
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Corporal punishment—usually referring to adults hitting children—was abolished in South Africa in 1997. The Constitutional Court had already ruled it incompatible with the bill of rights in 1995. In that judgment, the chief justice said that in his view, “juvenile whipping is cruel, it is inhuman and it is degrading”—as well as “unnecessary.” The South […]