This makes the event more or less equivalent to a private office caning - something we hardly ever get to see, compared with the many video clips of more informal and often jocular classroom CP in various parts of the world. All four are evidently there purely for the purpose of this disciplinary ceremony, in what is presumably a customary procedure at this school. Those present are the student being disciplined, the caning operator, a teacher standing to one side who observes the proceedings, and the person who took the film (there is reason to think this could be another errant student who had his turn just previously). It takes place in an otherwise empty classroom.
This very interesting and rare footage shows a near-perfect example of a formal schoolboy caning session in the best English tradition, carried out at a private secondary school in the Eastern Cape. South Africa - Schoolboy caning: three clips. SCHOOL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Video clips: South Africa: real school canings CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Video clips - Canings of schoolboys in South Africa