(African Sun Media, 2020) Grobbelaar, Jan; Jones, Chris
This chapter will focus on how children should be treated and raised
in a culture where the distinctions between discipline and punishment
have been blurred for decades. Why should a rights conception of
discipline matter? The chapter will navigate these and other issues
when it comes to disciplining children in a democratic, but often
violent society. It will firstly attend to the legal framework for discipline
in South Africa, especially regarding school discipline. Then it will
describe the current situation in South Africa and also look at recent
developments regarding corporal punishment and the continuing
struggle against violence that children experience and are exposed to
on a daily basis. Lastly, positive alternative ways of disciplining children
in order to behave better and how people responsible for children can
be assisted in this regard, will be addressed.