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An international children’s organisation has told the South African Human Rights Commission that teachers in Limpopo who have long been in the profession use corporal punishment because that is the only form of discipline they know.
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Discipline in schools: What the law says you can and can’t do

There is a difference between discipline and corporal punishment: one means teaching acceptable behaviours and the other intends grievous bodily harm

  • Timothy Fish Hodgson
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