Disability Rights

Paraplegic man dreams of having a house

Lwando Sigaqa lives in a shack in Taiwan informal settlement

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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

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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

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News | 12 February 2020

Blind woman and mentally challenged grandson abandoned by authorities

No help from Home Affairs, Social Development or Health

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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”

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Law | 15 January 2020

Court reprimands shop owner who denied access to child in wheelchair

“No one should be allowed to waste the court’s time unnecessarily” says magistrate

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Law | 11 December 2019

Commuter Lunga Zawa uses a wheelchair. But Nyanga station is only accessible by stairs

Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled has been fighting since 2015 for better access

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News | 29 November 2019

Mitchells Plain store owner given two weeks to respond to Equality Court

Store manager says shop owner might leave the country soon

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News | 12 November 2019