Disability Rights
Asylum seeker with spinal cord injury faces eviction from his shack
Markus Nyoni can no longer pay his rent because of the Covid-19 pandemic
News | 12 June 2020
Life in a shack when you’re in a wheelchair
Every day Nonceba Siyobi sits in the doorway of her home hoping a passerby will help her to the nearest toilet
News | 4 June 2020
School for disabled battles to stay open
Seven teachers resign at Oasis centre in Upington
News | 6 March 2020
Paraplegic man dreams of having a house
Lwando Sigaqa lives in a shack in Taiwan informal settlement
News | 26 February 2020
Equality Court orders shop to accommodate wheelchairs
“I want to give my son as full a life as I can, even if it means fighting so he can go to the shop like anyone else” says mother
News | 14 February 2020
Deaf children must wait, says Eastern Cape Department of Education
School gutted by fire won’t be fixed until 2023-4
News | 12 February 2020
Blind woman and mentally challenged grandson abandoned by authorities
No help from Home Affairs, Social Development or Health
News | 23 January 2020
Denying people in wheelchairs access to shops is discriminatory, argues lawyer
Mitchells Plain shop owner says policy was implemented to stop “rampant shoplifting”
By Barbara Maregele and Mosima Rafapa
Law | 15 January 2020
“We had no idea he couldn’t walk” claims shop owner who refused access to child in wheelchair
But child’s mom hits back in Equality Court papers
News | 9 January 2020