Disability Rights

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Wheelchair dependent man’s house fixed at last

"I can use the toilet without any help"

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Brief | 28 October 2016

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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

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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

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Centre for disabled children closes

Attempts to get more support from Eastern Cape government were fruitless

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News | 7 October 2016

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Disabled man fetches water with a bucket tied to his crutches

Pietermaritzburg resident has little hope elections will change his plight

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News | 23 August 2016

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Education that caters for disabled learners is attainable

But government needs to show more political will to implement its policies

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Opinion | 16 August 2016

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21-year-old in wheelchair just wants to go to school

Montoedi Nyangweni fell down a cliff fetching water from a river

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News | 19 July 2016

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Disabled and out of school

Over 58,000 children with disabilities may be out of school in the Western Cape

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Feature | 13 June 2016

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Disabled woman lives in a cardboard shack on a filthy hill

Poverty haunts Centerton, on the edge of the citrus town of Hankey

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News | 7 June 2016

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Help for disabled children of immigrants

Passop revives support group

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Brief | 3 June 2016

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Hope for mother of disabled teen

Nomahlubi Mbulu’s plight touches GroundUp and News24 readers

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News | 25 May 2016

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“I can’t even use the toilet in my own house”

Disabled man feels imprisoned in his unfinished RDP house

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News | 16 May 2016