We Know Enough Now to Stop Hitting our Kids By Carol Bower History was made today when the Constitutional Court found that the defence of reasonable chastisement is unconstitutional, and revoked it. This defence was part of our common law (i.e. not laid down in an Act...
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A LAMENT TO WOMEN’S MONTH By Carol Bower It’s been Women’s Month−which commemorates the 1956 march of 52,000 women to the Union Buildings. It’s a time, like the soon-to-arrive 16 Days of Activism, when government can talk a lot about what it’s doing to “combat the scourge”...
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If We Change Childhood, We Can Change the World By Carol Bower Around mid-afternoon, the 3 July 2019 issue of The South African appeared in my inbox. The first paragraph jumped out at me: A truly shocking story has emerged from Cape Town this week, after police confirmed...
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