SASA act 84 & NEPA
. SASA 84 of 1996 in section 10
states that no educator may
administer Corporal
punishment to a learner. The
National Education policy act of
1996 states that no person
shall administer corporal
punishment or subject a
student to psychological or
physical abuse at any
educational institution.
Corporal punishment
Corporal punishment according to
the WHO (2021) is defined as any
punishment where physical force is
used and intended to cause some
degree of pain or discomfort,
however light. Physical force involves
hitting with hand, implement, kicking
and so forth. Children are viewed as
a vulnerable group of the population
that cannot speak up nor stand up
for themselves, thus a law aids in
speaking for the vulnerable. Human
rights are put in place to protect
vulnerable groups from abuse
Human rights careers, n.d). A law
was passed by the South African
constitution to protect children in all
ways. That is how the constitution of
South Africa of 1996 was put in place
to ensure that people may not be
treated or punished in a cruel,
inhumane or degraded way. This law
was to protect everyone but one
needed to be put in place to protect
especially children or learner’s
Disadvantage
Corpora
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Children who have
been physically punished
tend to exhibit high
hormonal reactivity to stress,
overloaded biological
systems, including the
nervous, cardiovascular and
nutritional systems, and
changes in brain structure
and function.
Corporal Punishement
The following disadvantaged were
observed by the WHO (2021)

Triggering of harmful
psychological and
physiological responses.
 Experience of pain,
sadness, fear, anger,
shame and guilt.
•
Feeling threatened that
leads to physiological stress
and the activation of neural
pathways that support
dealing with danger.
Basic guidelines to be followed
when implementing
disciplinary consequences
 Code of conduct with the
transgression codes,
levels and disciplinary
action to be
administered for that
transgression should be
given in the beginning of
the year in the learner’s
diaries. This should be
read by educators and
explained to the
learner’s to ensure they
understand.
Why corporal punishment banned
Discipline is a good way to model desired behaviour in
children and make them accountable for their
behaviours. However, when overcome with anger one
can’t think rationally and finds it hard to act accordingly.
Thus, although corporal punishment ensured that
learner’s came to school, did their school work and
hardly bunked classes the punishment was at times
cruel, inhumane and made the learner’s feel degraded.
Some educators stepped over the line and boundary, by
enforcing unfair disciplinary measures, when
implementing corporal punishment. This was as a result
of educators not being bound by any law to keep them
accountable. The ban of corporal punishment does not
however exempt a learner from getting any form of
disciplinary action.

C Write down a report of the incident and
whether a verbal warning was given or a first
written warning was administered.
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All this should be recorded on the departmental
SASAMS so that if the educators are at all
attacked by the learner there are grounds of
expelling the learner as there is a written trail or
documents.in children and make them
accountable for their behaviours.
However,any form of disciplinary action.