Classroom canings in Eswatini: Two clips. Clip 2 is New!
CLIP 1 OF 2:
Date: Possibly c. 2000
Duration: 2 minutes
This very old clip is an extract from a British TV documentary about a village school in Swaziland (now renamed Eswatini). In a classroom with a serious atmosphere, a girl gets five strokes of the cane on the seat of her skirt for writing in a textbook. Later, during breaktime, more light-heartedly, a lady teacher briskly canes several boys and girls for not doing their homework. But the boy who apparently is the main subject of the programme manages to sneak away unpunished.
School corporal punishment remains lawful in Eswatini, though the government has sought to discourage it by administrative fiat.
HERE IS THE CLIP:
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CLIP 2 OF 2: New!
Date: January 2022
Duration: 30 seconds
Here is the Principal of Mhlatane High School dealing with three teenage miscreants, who take turns to go over a desk in their classroom for four brisk strokes of the cane across the seat of their white uniform trousers. The implement used is probably a locally sourced switch stripped of its bark.
My informant adds: "This appears to be a quality caning administered and received with proper decorum in a quiet and orderly class. It is not a one-off as everyone seems to know what is required."
According to the Eswatini Observer ("Pupils are getting out of hand", 18 Jan 2022), the three boys were found wandering about the school when they should have been in class, and the Principal, Dr Dlamini, decided they needed to be brought to order.
HERE IS THE CLIP:
