Prevalence and factors associated with experience of corporal punishment in public schools in South Africa

• Pinky Mahlangu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pinky.mahlangu@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-942X

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• Esnat Chirwa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0471-4978

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• Mercilene Machisa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Yandisa Sikweyiya,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Nwabisa Shai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4171-9129

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• Rachel Jewkes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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