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Today is Friday, July 28th, A.D. 2023. This is The Africa Review in Five, written by Paul Schlehlein and presented by Yamikani Katunga.

On Spanking Your Child in Africa

Last month in June, South Africa’s highest court upheld a ruling that the corporal punishment of children at home violates a child’s rights and is therefore unconstitutional. This ruling was in agreement with the 2017 Constitutional Court decision that sentenced a father for severely spanking his 13-year-old son for watching a pornographic film on an iPad. The father argued that he as the parent has the right to discipline his son. The court disagreed.