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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 1 Nov 2017

    Is South Africa right to ban smacking? Parents who smack their children could now be jailed for assault 🇿🇦 http://bbc.in/2zW5CBY pic.twitter.com/SUnFNM6hGa

    1:00 AM - 1 Nov 2017
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      2. Kokwani N'waCash‏ @dudufatso 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        I'm waiting for the comments..First of all, I was also smacked as a kid. My parents have never been arrested. Discipline is necessarypic.twitter.com/1OrubNfnYZ

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Bradley‏ @silentalarm_ 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @dudufatso @BBCAfrica

        I'm glad that you don't have any long-lasting emotional trauma but many others do because of smacking so think about others for once.

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Gwavvu Wass‏ @GwavvuW 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @silentalarm_ @dudufatso @BBCAfrica

        Blame them that raised you for replacing disciplining you with assault.big difference...

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Bradley‏ @silentalarm_ 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @GwavvuW @dudufatso @BBCAfrica

        Any sort of hitting of a child is assault. And doesn't truly help children understand what they did wrong. Only stops them through fear.

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Gwavvu Wass‏ @GwavvuW 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @silentalarm_ @dudufatso @BBCAfrica

        This is why spoilt kids in the west insult parents, something unheard of in http://Africa.now  u wanna import it too!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Tsundzuka Shipalana‏ @Tsundzuka 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @GwavvuW @silentalarm_ and

        Reason we see children governing households today

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      8. Gwavvu Wass‏ @GwavvuW 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Tsundzuka @silentalarm_ and

        This Bradley guy is so annoying.we all see y he was disciplined and he can’t ☹️

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Gwavvu Wass‏ @GwavvuW 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        As always, first they legalise homosexuality and now this.the Bible says otherwise.something wrong in the south of our great continent!

        3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Siya‏ @Scyas 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @GwavvuW @BBCAfrica

        Totally agree with you, we are in trouble in my country

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Seun Olota‏ @SeunOlota 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Spare the rod and spoil the child hasn't failed Africans. God forbid we seeing a child slapping her parents because of personal right.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Wachira J Gĩtahi‏ @wachira_gitahi 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Here in Kenya, it was made illegal long ago! Even caning in schools! South Africa is too late!

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
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      1. Mazi‏ @IkennaNwab 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        I'd like to echo the views of @logicalkenyan1. The threat of a smack kept me and my siblings in check. South Africa has bigger problems

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      1. Comrade Adams Abo'nu‏ @adamsabonu 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        That's like withholding the rod from an erring child, as the Bible preached against. Who's that child who wouldn't be corrected??!

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      2. Versace Sensei‏ @MousseOFreshe 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        That Law only applies to white people in South Africa, Black parents wont have none of that

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Peter‏ @Peter28663946 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @MousseOFreshe @BBCAfrica

        That's just the point. It is a mockery of the law.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Versace Sensei‏ @MousseOFreshe 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Peter28663946 @BBCAfrica

        How do you even police spanking?

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Keith Dennis‏ @Dennohkeith 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @LATIFESSEWANDAG

        all the parents will go to jail then😂

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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