Disability Rights

Demand for sign language and braille in police stations

Gugulethu campaign for better services for people with disabilities

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Brief | 2 December 2016

Motorists blind to disability

A big walk by blind people from around the Eastern Cape raised awareness on the roads

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Brief | 21 November 2016

Blind man has to walk three kilometres to fetch water

The daily struggle of Ernest Mdunge and his disabled sister

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News | 16 November 2016

Masiphumelele mother’s struggle to find school for deaf son

Her story highlights the problems faced by children with disabilities and their parents 

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News | 3 November 2016

Rare facility for kids with special needs

Parents and caregivers have been running their own facility in East London for ten years

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News | 2 November 2016

Stabbed on his way to the toilet, Khayelitsha man is now in a wheelchair

Sinethemba Mfaca spends his days trapped in his one-roomed shack

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News | 1 November 2016

Wheelchair dependent man’s house fixed at last

"I can use the toilet without any help"

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Brief | 28 October 2016

Paralysed teenager bitten by rats while sleeping

14-year-old Palesa Kwayiba, who uses a wheelchair, puts a brave face on the daily struggle of living in an informal settlement

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News | 26 October 2016

Public transport is a nightmare for the disabled

“People treat us as if we chose to be in these wheelchairs”

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News | 14 October 2016