“The teacher from Tokotoko High School in Nongoma whose video of her beating learners went viral has been suspended with immediate effect‚” the Department of Basic Education - @DBE_SA - tweeted on Tuesday. The video‚ posted on Facebook‚ shows the matric girls holding on to the back of a chair while being hit with a stick on the buttocks. It appears the video‚ which was uploaded by Makhi Zihlangu on June 21‚ was made by one of the pupils in the class where the corporal punishment happened.The Times was alerted to the video by education spokesman Muzi Mahlambi on Monday.The video starts with one girl being hit twice on the buttocks‚ before walking away in pain. But the teacher grabs her hand and drags her back over to the chair and hits her two more times‚ before making her turn around and hitting her on her hands three times. The teacher then pulls another girl over and hits her six times in quick succession on the buttocks. This happens to another three pupils‚ while some of the pupils in the class can be heard laughing.While details of the incident were still being gathered‚ Mahlambi said the department had launched an investigation because corporal punishment had been outlawed.He said Kwa-Zulu-Natal education MEC Mthandeni Dlungwane would visit the school on Tuesday.At the time of publication‚ ‏@DBE_SA tweeted: “MEC Dlungwana of @DBE_KZN is currently in a meeting with parents‚ SGB & all stakeholders.”..