UTHUKELA - KZN Education plans to suspend a teacher caught on video slapping pupils in class.
The Dr Joseph Shabalala Secondary School teacher is seen slapping boys in front of their classmates.
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He has taken leave following the incident.
Corporal punishment to discipline unruly pupils was outlawed in South African schools in 1997.
Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka led department officials on a visit to the school in Ladysmith on Wednesday.