Editorial
Hitting children is wrong, as teachers should know
18 August 2019 - 00:00
An eight-year-old pupil's finger was broken when his teacher hit him with a hard plastic pipe. The Mpumalanga school did not inform the provincial education department of the vicious assault, which took place in May. In another incident, a video that went viral this week shows a Limpopo teacher slapping pupils across the face. Besides sparking outrage as they rightfully should, these incidents prompt the question: why are teachers still beating pupils, which is plain assault, when corporal punishment was banned in our schools in 1996?..
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