Thrashing Children Is Out Of Fashion

A stiff upper-lipped Motswana disciplinarian, however, vowed by the other proverb: "Lore le ojwa le sale metsi", and such kind of people seemed to take pleasure from thrashing children at the slightest provocation.

Gilbert Otswaleng, now in his 40s and a construction worker in Francistown, remembers the day his father paid an unexpected visit to his school to find out if he had paid school fees with the three Rands his mother had given him that morning.
He was a nine-year -old in Standard Two then, and after successfully making the transaction, which would cover the three terms, he was given a receipt, which he dutifully passed on to his elder brother who was in an upper stream to give to their elders