When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the teachers would hit us. It was called getting the cane, the cane being a long, flexible stick.

Northern Ireland ‘Discipline Must Be Taught by Fear’ Judge Backs Teacher’s Right to Cane - On This Day in 1925 Fifteen months after the alleged caning, a schoolgirl’s claim was thrown out ...