POLOKWANE – The department of education has to cough up a total of R191 750 in damages in a civil claim following the assault of an eight-year-old learner at a local Primary School.
A teacher at the school, instructed a co-learner to discipline children making noise in her class on May 3 2012.
The learner was handed a stick by the teacher and then started to assault the group of learners one by one with the stick, on the palms of their hands.
The plaintiff, a girl who was eight years old at the time, was also struck and a splinter from the stick lodged in her finger.
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