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...

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...