Teachers reportedly caned
every pupil in a school in Swaziland / Eswatini for poor performance.
The Times
of Swaziland published the accusation on Friday (27 June 2018). It said
each pupil at Mbuluzi High School was given three strokes.
It said, ‘When the school
was visited, some pupils were heard screaming while others peeped through the
windows in one of the classrooms where the activity took place. Some pupils
were seen rubbing their buttocks while others wept bitterly as they left the
classroom.’
It added, ‘Other learners
were seen limping as they returned to their various classrooms. Speaking to
their classmates in sign language, the pupils indicated that they were given
three strokes each. These were the pupils who awaited the same punishment
outside the classroom.’
The Times said pupils reported they were punished for poor performance.
‘They alleged that the whole school was punished by the teachers who were
working collectively,’ it said.
As recently as September 2017 it was reported that an 11-year-old boy from Ekuphakameni Community
Primary School in the outskirts of Hlatikhulu lost
an eye when a cane his schoolteacher was using to illegally beat
other pupils broke and splintered.
In August 2017 it was reported that boys at Salesian
High, a Catholic school, were forced to take down their trousers and underwear
to
be beaten on the naked buttocks.
In May 2017 pupils at Lubombo Central Primary School in Siteki were
thrashed because they did not bring enough empty milk cartons to
class.
In March 2017 children at Masundvwini Primary School boycotted
classes because they lived in fear of the illegal corporal punishment
they are made to suffer. Local media reported that children were hit with a
stick, which in at least one case was said to have left a child ‘bleeding from
the head’.
In August 2016 an eight-year-old schoolboy at Siyendle
Primary School, near Gege, was thrashed
so hard in class he vomited. His teacher reportedly forced
classmates to hold the boy down while he whipped him with a stick. It happened
after a group of schoolboys had been inflating condoms when they were
discovered by the teacher.
In June 2016 the school principal at the Herefords
High School was reported to police after allegedly giving a 20-year-old female
student nine strokes of the cane on the buttocks. The Swazi
Observer reported at the time,
‘She was given nine strokes on the buttocks by the principal while the deputy
helped her by holding the pupil’s hands as she was made to lie down, said the
source.’
In September 2015 the Times reported a 17-year-old school pupil died after allegedly
being beaten at school. The pupil reportedly had a seizure.
In March 2015 a primary school teacher at the Florence
Christian Academy was charged with causing grievous bodily harm
after allegedly giving 200 strokes of the cane to a 12-year-old pupil on her
buttocks and all over her body.
In February 2015 the headteacher of Mayiwane High School Anderson Mkhonta reportedly admitted giving 15
strokes to a form 1 pupil for not wearing a neck tie properly.
In April 2015, parents reportedly complained to the Ndlalane Primary School
after a teacher beat pupils for not following his instruction and shaving their
hair.
See also
CANE BANNED IN SWAZI SCHOOLS
CHILDREN
FEAR BEATINGS, MISS SCHOOL
https://swazimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/children-fear-beatings-miss-school.html
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