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Statistics South Africa says corporal punishment of school pupils is on the rise in the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga.
That's according to Statistics South Africa's latest General Household Survey.
The 2012 report, released in Pretoria on Thursday, has found that nationally, 15.8% of learners "experienced corporal punishment at school" during that year.
Statistician general, Padi Lehohla, says the practice is most common in the Eastern Cape at 30.3%, KwaZulu-Natal, 21.4% and Free State at 18.4 percent.
Stats SA says in 2011, the figure for the Eastern Cape was 29.9 percent.
