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Corporal punishment outlawed in schools,homes
28 Feb 2017 at 10:54hrs | Views
A Zimbabwean judge has today outlawed corporal punishment in schools and homes leaving school heads,teachers, parents and guardians used to applying physical pain on errant children in a quagmire.
Justice David Mangota made the ruling.
"Justice Mangota has just issued an order outlawing corporal punishment in the home and in schools" twitted lawyer Tendai Biti.
Corporal punishment was recently banned in schools after a test case involving a 15-year-old boy who was appealing against a punishment he was yet to receive.
A high court judge ruled that beating children was "inhuman and degrading", and therefore outlawed under the country's new constitution, which provides more human rights protection to its citizens.
Last year, a headmistress Modester Rubhabha was charged with murder after a pupil she allegedly caned for indiscipline died shortly afterwards.
Rubhabha was alleged to have called the boy to an empty classroom after he was reported to her for misbehaving in a new teacher's class.
The boy was caned on the buttocks and collapsed during the punishment and was declared dead in hospital three hours later.
Justice David Mangota made the ruling.
"Justice Mangota has just issued an order outlawing corporal punishment in the home and in schools" twitted lawyer Tendai Biti.
Corporal punishment was recently banned in schools after a test case involving a 15-year-old boy who was appealing against a punishment he was yet to receive.
Last year, a headmistress Modester Rubhabha was charged with murder after a pupil she allegedly caned for indiscipline died shortly afterwards.
Rubhabha was alleged to have called the boy to an empty classroom after he was reported to her for misbehaving in a new teacher's class.
The boy was caned on the buttocks and collapsed during the punishment and was declared dead in hospital three hours later.
Source - Byo24News
