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Debate reignites over corporal punishment in Zimbabwean schools

The issue of corporal punishment in schools has once again sparked heated debate among Zimbabwean lawmakers, traditional leaders, educators, and parents, following a recent incident at SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School where a Grade 3 pup…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 09:24hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter

Woman's arrest over Vuzu party sparks debate on corporal punishment

The arrest and conviction of Panashe Mpofu, a Bulawayo woman who disciplined teenagers, including her own child, for hosting a Vuzu party, has reignited discussions on the legality and ethics of corporal punishment in Zimbabwe.Mpofu was se…

Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:17hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa implores parents to administer corporal punishment

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored parents and guardians to administer corporal punishment to discipline their children and challenged churches and other social institutions to join in the fight against drug and substance abuse and bullying …

Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Student teachers want corporal punishment back

THE Council of Student Teachers (COST) has called on Parliament to revisit the corporal punishment ban at school saying it is the major contributor to the rise in child delinquency.Corporal punishment was outlawed in 2017 through a High Co…

Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 17:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Boy, I love democracy - pity I don't live in one!

Most times, I feel like a lonely miserable little child - who is sitting on his home's stoep, fondly admiring the neighbors' happy family, whose parents will be joyfully playing together with their children, and all looking healthy, well-f…

Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 18:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Cheating wife bashes hubby as punishment for exposing affair

GETTING cheated on is one of the most devastating and damaging things that can happen in a person's life.It becomes even worse when that partner who is cheating on you becomes abusive as punishment for exposing his or her unsavoury shenani…

Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:47hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter

Corporal punishment must never be viewed as violence

Editor,Children have to be put on a leash. A child who grows without the leash of fear of the stick meanders boundlessly into forbidden seams of the social realm. The element of force is an essential societal tool which has to be used to c…

Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 12:25hrs | 3 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa

Is corporal punishment really bad for juveniles?

Last Friday, I read with trepidation the High Court declaration that corporal punishment or caning of children is now unconstitutional.In her review  ruling, in a case involving a 15 year old juvenile accused of rape, Justice Esther M…

Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by John Gambanga

Man (74) gets third wife as punishment to first wife for dragging him to court

"AS punishment for dragging me to court, I am going to take a third wife," boasted a 72-year-old father of 14.People at the Mutare Civil Courts were left in stitches due to Lazarus Teedzai (72)'s ignorance of the maintenance law when he de…

Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

Blacks in South Africa gets harsher punishment - magistrate

Johannesburg - A South African magistrate in the Pretoria Courts has said black people have to pay more bail than whites, and are effectively receiving harsher punishments than whites who have committed the same offences.Magistrate Ndileka…

Published: 27 Mar 2012 at 07:48hrs | | by Sapa

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