Open letter to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng from Dr Alan Donkin Dear Chief Justice Mogoeng I am a General Practitioner in Somerset West and I am greatly concerned after reading your judgement outlawing reasonable chastisement. Recently it was necessary for me to stitch a laceration on the forehead of a […]
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Spanking judgment bad news for parental rights, freedom of religion
By Freedom of Religion South Africa As most South Africans will know by now, the Constitutional Court has recently ruled that it is illegal for parents to spank their children. The practical implication of the Court’s judgment is that all spanking – whether on the hand or on the bottom, and regardless […]