Botswana -- School CP: Two video clips.
CLIP 1 OF 2:
Date: 2015
Duration: 2 minutes
This clip consists of discontinuous scenes extracted from a longer film made at a private school in Maun, Botswana. School CP by cane or strap is fully lawful in Botswana.
Five senior boys come in turn to the front of the class for discipline. Each receives two strokes of the cane across the seat of their blue uniform trousers. The punishment is administered by a lady teacher. The students are much bigger than she is, but they readily submit to her authority, adopting a suitable posture without being told. In a couple of cases the beneficiary is kept waiting in position for a while.
The atmosphere is matter-of-fact and at times light-hearted. Class caning is clearly part of the normal routine here. We do not know what the students are being punished for, but it is apparently nothing serious.
There are also girls in the class, but we do not see them being punished on this occasion.
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CLIP 2 OF 2: New!
Date: 2021
Duration: 40 seconds
This is Sir Seretse Khama junior school in Gaborone. A girl in her school uniform is shown being caned on the seat of her skirt while lying face down on the ground. Then her place is taken by a boy, but we don't see his punishment. According to local media, their offence was truancy. What was said to be controversial was not the caning itself, which is normal and legal in Botswana, but the fact that somebody took this video of it and put it on social media.
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