{"id":37456,"date":"2023-10-30T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?p=37456"},"modified":"2023-10-30T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:57:15","slug":"minister-to-table-bill-that-bans-corporal-punishment-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-table-bill-that-bans-corporal-punishment-in-schools","title":{"rendered":"Minister to table bill that bans corporal punishment in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>It is just a matter of time before the Minister of Education and Skills Development, Dr. Douglas Letsholathebe presents an amendment bill to the Education Act that, for the first time, will ban the use of corporal punishment in Botswana schools.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That revelation was made by Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mabuse Pule, when he stood in for Letsholathebe during last week\u2019s session of Ntlo ya Dikgosi. The revelation came courtesy of a motion by Kgosi Lotlamoreng II of Barolong who, through a motion, requested the government \u201cto consider amending the Education Regulations to allow administration of corporal punishment on students.\u201d Giving the government\u2019s response, Pule said that the amended regulations will outlaw corporal punishment. The ban will mark the first time in Botswana\u2019s history that teachers are not allowed to administer corporal punishment on learners.<\/p>\n<p>Practically all dikgosi who got a chance to contribute to the debate supported the motion. Holding himself up as a perfect example of the point he was making, Kgosi James Khumanego of Ngwaketse West Region, said that corporal punishment that he received as a child didn\u2019t kill him. Indeed, there is folk saying in Setswana that \u201cthupa ga e bolaye\u201d \u2013 meaning that corporal punishment doesn\u2019t kill.<\/p>\n<p>As part of effort to implement \u201cchild-friendly policies\u201d in schools, the Ministry of Education and Skills Development has placed greater emphasis on programmes like guidance and counselling. On the other hand, Kgosi Sibangani Mosojane of North East Region said that counselling doesn\u2019t work and in service of that argument, revealed that teachers themselves bring wayward students to his kgotla to be corporally punished. Where they would have been caned or expelled from school altogether in the past, today overly wayward students are typically suspended from school for a number of days. Mosojane mentioned an incident in his region in which a student floored a teacher with a blow and was suspended as punishment. The Mosojane kgosi said that the suspension only served to embolden the student in his disrespect of authority whereas corporal punishment would have set him straight.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of the government banning corporal punishment is that in 2020, Press discovered that some Gaborone schools were quietly taking wayward students to the kgotla to be corporally punished. It would learn from the Batlokwa Deputy Kgosi, Spokes Gaborone, that the Tlokweng kgotla has handled student indiscipline cases from Gaborone Senior Secondary School, Naledi Senior Secondary School, Nanogang Junior Secondary School and Bonnington Junior Secondary School \u2013 all in Gaborone. While cagey with some precise details, Gaborone said that the corporal punishment meted out at the kgotla is done in accordance with the law, is administered by the culprits\u2019 male relatives (like uncles) and in the presence of police officers. Thankfully, a source at the Tlokweng kgotla revealed that most of the culprits already look terrified when they arrive at the kgotla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost are spoiled brats who basically run their households and are used to doing whatever and wherever with impunity. It is only now that they are being introduced to real punishment and know that unlike in school or at home, they can\u2019t get their way,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry gave this arrangement what essentially amounted to a wink and a nod. A year later, then education minister, Fidelis Molao, would praise the Bakgatla Regent, Kgosi Bana Sekai, for providing this same service to schools in Mochudi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. It is just a matter of time before the Minister of Education and Skills Development, Dr. Douglas Letsholathebe presents an amendment bill to the Education Act that, for the first time, will ban the use of corporal punishment in Botswana schools. 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