South African parents could be criminally convicted for spanking their children. The Constitutional Court has confirmed the 2017 judgment of the High Court in Johannesburg, which ruled that disciplining children physically is unconstitutional. This morning on our Legally Speaking feature, we are in conversation with the Centre for Child Law, which is based in the Law Faculty at the University of Pretoria to understand what the new law entails legally and whether the ruling will advance South Africa towards non-violence…

GUEST: Isabel Magaya, a researcher at the Centre for Child Law, which is based in the Law Faculty at the University of Pretoria