‘CORPORAL PUNISHMENT FRACTURED MY CHILD’S SKULL’

MBABANE – Parents of a 13-year-old Grade IV pupil at Manzini Practising Infact School are demanding E4.6 million from government.

This comes after their child’s skull was allegedly fractured when a female teacher at the school meted out corporal punishment on him.
The teacher is alleged to have hit the pupil with a big stick several times on the head.

This allegedly also resulted in the child being epileptic.
The legal guardian of the pupil, Mduduzi Nelson Ginindza, has instituted legal proceedings against the teacher, Chakazile Ndlangamandla, and the Ministry of Education and Training.
The name of the pupil has been deliberately withheld.

 In his particulars of claim, Ginindza, who is the biological father of the pupil, stated that on or about September 2015, the teacher meted out corporal punishment on his child.
According to Ginindza, the corporal punishment was unlawful in that it was excessive and negligent.
“As a result, the child has suffered and continues to suffer headaches and nose bleeds.

“On enquiry from the child, we discovered that he has been assaulted on his head several times by Ndlangamandla (teacher) by hitting him with a stick,” alleged the parent.
He further claimed that at the beginning of October and before the pupil was sent for medical examination, they (parent and teachers) observed that the child had started complaining of continuous headaches and would be observed bleeding through the nose.
He pointed out that the cause could not be determined by him and the teachers.
“I then took steps to have the child treated of the condition, under the impression that it was a temporary and treatable condition. 
“But months passed and the condition of the child worsened and he exhibited signs of epilepsy,” submitted the father of the pupil.

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