Corporal punishment out, but police boss calls for stricter measures at schools

JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has called for a peaceful approach to instilling discipline in schools, despite ongoing violence at a number of institutions over the past few months.Deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi stopped short of calling for the return of corporal punishment but did suggest that alternative forms of discipline needed to be considered.

A number of delegates at the summit told officials of gangsterism, teachers and pupils being assaulted and even parents being beaten up by their own children. Mkongi called for South Africans to take a stand, saying warnings and expulsions were not good enough and disciplinary measures needed to be revived.However, Lesufi responded by saying that corporal punishment and other violent means are not the answer.

I teach my children to never ever inflict pain on another human being for whatever reason, because its not a good thing to do . So, i will not expect anybody to that to my kids. There are many ways to restrict a child than causing pain...

That yellow ruler is nothing compared to what we went through in our school days. You do that to my kid....i wil personally go deal with you in school, i will not allow my kids to go though pain and classify that as punishment.

Whoever was caling for corporal punishment did not go through what some of us went through in school. We cant let our kids go through the same torture that we were put through by the old barbaric teachers who got to teach with just standard 10. It was pure torture.

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