<P> The Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act , 1997 ( Act No. 33 of 1997 ) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that abolished judicial corporal punishment . It followed the Constitutional Court 's 1995 decision in the case of S v Williams and Others that caning of juveniles was unconstitutional . Although the ruling in S v Williams was limited to the corporal punishment of males under the age of 21 , Justice Langa mentioned in dicta that there was a consensus that corporal punishment of adults was also unconstitutional . </P>
when was corporal punishment banned in south africa
1997