when was corporal punishment banned in south african schools
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title: School corporal punishment text: of six strokes per occasion. In some cases the punishment is carried out in front of the rest of the school instead of in private. The use of corporal punishment in schools was prohibited by the South African Schools Act, 1996. According to section 10 of the act: In the case of "Christian Education South Africa v Minister of Education" the Constitutional Court rejected a claim that the constitutional right to religious freedom entitles private Christian schools to impose corporal punishment. Liberal regions in South Korea have completely banned all forms of caning beginning with Gyeonggi Province in 2010, followed title: Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 text: Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 The Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 (Act No. 33 of 1997) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that abolished judicial corporal punishment. It followed the Constitutional Court's 1995 decision in the case of "S v Williams and Others" that caning of juveniles was unconstitutional. Although the ruling in "S v Williams" was limited to the corporal punishment of males under the age of 21, Justice Langa mentioned in "dicta" that there was a consensus that corporal punishment of adults was also unconstitutional. The act contains two substantive sections. The first title: South African criminal law text: simple message to be taken from this, according to the Constitutional Court, in "S v Williams", is that the State, in imposing punishment, must do so in accordance with certain standards; these will reflect the values which underpin the Constitution. In the present context, this means that punishment must respect human dignity and be consistent with the provisions of the Constitution. The caning of juveniles "in casu" was accordingly ruled unconstitutional. The Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act abolished judicial corporal punishment. The South African Schools Act abolished corporal punishment in schools. In "Christian Education v Minister of Education", a private title: Caning text: applied by a female teacher. Caning as a school punishment for boys is still routine in a number of former British territories including Singapore, Malaysia and Zimbabwe. Until recently it had also been common in Australia (now banned in public schools; and abolished in practice (though not strictly in theory) by the vast majority of all independent schools), New Zealand (banned from 1990) and South Africa (banned in public and private schools alike from 1996). In the UK, all corporal punishment in private schools was finally banned in 1999 for England and Wales, 2000 in Scotland, and 2003 in Northern title: Education in South Africa text: the country. This is infamously known as the Soweto Uprising. When students and those able to take a stand, demanded to be taught in their mother tongue. Many were killed and injured that day due to police intervention, they are remembered as martyrs. Schools were vandalized and teachers left unable to teach and students were unable to come to school. The National Policy for General Affairs Act (No. 76) of 1984 provided some improvements in black education but maintained the overall separation called for by the Bantu education system. The Department of Education and Training was responsible for black education