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We fail children living with disabilities

Despite commendable work and persistent battles, not enough is being done for these learners

There are thousands of people with​ disabilities studying at South African universities. It’s crucial that these issues are taken seriously.

New copyright law will benefit South Africans with disabilities

South Africa’s new Copyright Amendment Bill could help the country take an important step in tackling its own “book famine

South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, even higher than some countries at war

Listen to the voices of women with disabilities

Women with communication disabilities are more likely to be victims of violence. But technological communication aids can help them speak out

One of South Africa’s best athletes is making waves internationally and is targeting a third world record. You’ve probably never heard of him.

The accidental record-breaker

Mpumelelo Mhlongo is crushing it on the global stage, and has his eye on a third world record

More than 600?000 children with disabilities in South Africa have never been to school (John McCann)

No school for 600 000 children

The education department should provide free, inclusive education for disabled children and support their caregivers

The Aller River project has been a resounding success

Community Conservation and Resilience

Winner: Aller River Pilot Project

Graduation numbers are on the incline at the Tshwane University of Technology

Graduation ceremonies a success

Autumn graduation ceremonies fairly conducted

Mashadi Makwana of the Nedbank Foundation handing over a mobile library to a teacher and two pupils from Rammopodu Primary School.
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​Queerness, desire and disability

Queer people with disabilities face double discrimination when it comes to sex.

Patience and Naledi Mufamadi-Mogashwa are a married couple who both suffer from mental disabilities

​Where queer and disabled intersect

There’s already a stigma attached to being queer. Add a disability and there’s this ‘assumption that you need to be protected from desire’.

Hours after falling into a pit latrine, Michael Komape’s mother still desperately hoping he could be rescued alive, had to sit, looking at the little hand, waiting for social services to come. (Elijar Mushiana/Gallo Images/Sowetan)

Universities’ inclusion of disabled students is limited

Universities must move beyond measuring inclusion based only on the number of students with disabilities they have enrolled each year.

Supportive: Schools must recognise that ‘no one is disabled: all persons are abled differently’.

Traditional leaders ‘scared’ of disabled people

Disabled people in rural areas say that "negative attitudes, lack of patience, are barriers to accessing justice in the traditional courts".

Patrick Selepe is the national development manager for wheelchair tennis.

Players in the pound seats

Wheelchair tennis is grounded in clumsy mobility, but its popularity is soaring in South Africa.

Intellectually disabled women in India ‘treated worse than animals’

A recent report says that intellectually disabled women in India are routinely locked up in institutions where they are "treated worse than animals".

Ubuntu challenges the dominant views that dehumanise, isolate, stigmatise and exclude those living with disabilitiesPhoto: File

Disabled children face uphill education battle

Even though the Constitution guarantees disabled children the right to education, many don’t go to school, or have great difficulty in doing so.

John Phillips on his Mountain Trike.

Mountain bike technology behind off-road wheelchair

Build mountain bike technology into a wheelchair and suddenly the hills open up to the handicapped, writes Arthur Goldstuck.

Supportive: Schools must recognise that ‘no one is disabled: all persons are abled differently’.

Teaching that embraces difference

Education law and classroom mindsets are still not accommodating "disabled" pupils properly.

M&G Newsroom: Searching for the Nkandla truth

Join M&G Newsroom hosts Verashni Pillay and Phillip de Wet this Monday between 1pm and 2pm as they take you through the latest in current affairs.

Taking care of disabled children takes a special kind of person. But caregivers at centres such as Eyethu are not receiving the training they need.

Care centres: Changing the lives of disabled children

Taking care of disabled children takes a special kind of person. But caregivers at centres such as Eyethu are not receiving the training they need.

The female entrepreneur awards winners

Here is the full list of winners.

The City of Cape Town’s changes to its Dial-a-Ride service means people with disabilities won’t have transport to any other place than work during peak hours. Photo: File

Disabled pupils’ hostel of horror

It’s literally a case of the blind leading the blind at the crumbling Setotolwane special-needs school.