Summary LME3701 Assignment 3: Portfolio (SOLUTIONS) Semester 2 (2022)

The topic reminds me of the trip down the childhood memory lane, when I grow up in the 1980s in a village in Limpopo province. There was one `community disciplinarian` - let’s call him “Mr M”. Mr M had a reputation of being a feared `child spanker` in the whole village! From parents, guardians and grandparents, Mr M will be called at every opportunity to come and to use his sjambok, to instil discipline. He was called for mostly `offence` such as school going children who skip classes, theft, rudeness towards elders, boys who smoke cigarettes, girls who dress up improperly, children who bully others and boys who have failed to look after their family livestock, from eating subsistence farmer`s crops among others. We will always be reminded that, “you’ll need to enforce some discipline, in order to help keep your child, from engaging in truant behaviour”. Mr M`s role, was seen as acting in the best interests of the community – to instil discipline by spanking kids so as to maintain social harmony. All this events above, was before the adoption of South Africa’s 1996 Constitution.