Teacher Caught on Video Slapping Student, Other Students Support Her Action

South Africa- The Western Cape education department has launched an investigation after a video showed a teacher slapping a pupil in a classroom at one of Cape Town’s leading schools. In the video, shot this week, the Sans Souci Girls’ High School teacher can be seen and heard embroiled in an argument with a grade 9 girl over a book.



Debbie Schäfer, the Western Cape education MEC, said ill-discipline at schools would not be tolerated but "corporal punishment is unacceptable". She said officials from her department had visited the school on February 6 2019. She said the teacher in the video had been appointed by the school governing body, which would meet to discuss disciplinary steps. Schäfer said pupils at Sans Souci, in Newlands, had held “a peaceful protest in assembly in support of the educator" on Wednesday.