Parents of children at a Swaziland Primary School are threatening to call the police the next time their children are beaten, writes Swaziland Newsletter Friday.
Two children were so badly beaten by a teacher that one was left with a broken arm and another was so severely thrashed on the buttocks (bagen) and they could not sit nor sleep for days.
Parents at the school claim that the teacher who inflicted the wounds is a drunk and unfit to teach their children.
The Weekend Observer newspaper reported that the two children were beaten because they became tired during a sports training session.
A parent of the child who was beaten told the newspaper, the “buttocks were swollen and filled with blood clots”.
One parent said: – Next time he punishes our children like that, we will not hesitate to call the police and lay a charge of assault and also call SWAGAA (Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse) to report the abuse.
Parents complained to Wilson Ntshangase, Minister of Education and Training, who said it was up to the school principal to deal with the teacher.
Excessively brutal corporal punishment is taking place in schools all over the tiny country in Southern Africa. Recent reports included one about a child blinded for life by a punishment cane (stok). Another was about a boy who collapsed unconscious and had to be rushed to the clinic after a beating for something he had not even done.
What is so unique about Swazi children that they can not be educated without violence? In neighbouring South Africa, children are protected against corporal punishment under the country’s constitution.
Corporal punishment has been banned in schools in most developed countries all over the world.
King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, should put in place a law to protect its children.
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PROBE VICIOUS SCHOOL BEATINGS
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