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The South African Council for Educators has been taken to court for ‘shockingly lenient sanctions’ imposed on two teachers who beat learners bloody. The South African Council for Educators has been taken to court for ‘shockingly lenient sanctions’ imposed on two teachers who beat learne...
According to court papers lodged by CCL and SECTION27 in the Gauteng High Court, they want the two teachers to be retried as they are unhappy with the sanctions imposed on them.
Corporal punishment in schools has been outlawed in SA for 24 years, but is still widespread. The application in the North Gauteng High Court was lodged by the organisation Section27 “in the public interest”. The “slap on the wrist” punishment meted out to two primary school teachers, the fact that they are still teaching and the failure of SACE to provide reasons for this, are at the heart of the application. The Centre’s director Karabo Ozah said in court papers that SACE, “the custodian of the teaching profession”, has a duty to take effective and transparent disciplinary action against teachers who commit acts of violence against learners.