The ninth Wheelchair Wednesday campaign was launched by SPAR Eastern Cape and the Association for Persons with Physical Disabilities (APD) with a special tribute to late president Nelson Mandela in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 18 July 2020. Local personalities from all walks of life were tasked to spend 67 minutes in a wheelchair to promote […]
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Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer is telling Hollywood to step up in regard to casting persons with disabilities, likening their lack of representation to the experiences of women and other minorities. In a public service announcement released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act this past weekend, Spencer said the time is
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Transport plays an important role in enabling people with disabilities to travel and live independently. People with disabilities often experience barriers in accessing transport. Lack of access to transport may lead to high rates of unemployment, poverty, and lack of opportunities among persons with disabilities. It is therefore essential to improve the provision of transport
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July is Mental Illness Awareness Month. Mental illness, and the stigma surrounding it, is a critical issue in South Africa. The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) is at the forefront of patient advocacy, education and destigmatisation of mental illness in the country. Its expertise lies in assisting patients and callers throughout South Africa
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A Talking Calculator is a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics which then voices the answer back to the user in a clear voice. There are a variety of Talking Calculators available in South Africa, including the “A4 Talking Desktop Calculator” from Edit Microsystems. This A4 sized calculator
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Do you find it difficult to load your wheelchair into the boot? Wheelchairs on the Run is a company established in 2002 which prides itself in not being too big to care and not being too small to make a difference, offering persons with disabilities a variety of products and services at competitive prices. One
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Static Positioners offer alternative positions for the user, when out of the wheelchair, which allows them to stand or lie on their side, giving them a break from being in a wheelchair. It maintains the benefits of good positioning when out of the wheelchair and gives them a experience life from a different angle. A
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Sbonelo Ndwandwe works at Checkers in Amanzimtoti outside Durban. He is one of more than 550 deaf and hard-of-hearing learners afforded an opportunity to secure employment thanks to the Shoprite Group’s Decade of the Deaf initiative.
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Duncan Yates is the Mental Health and Neurodiversity Co-ordinator at the Wits Disability Rights Unit (DRU) where he has been working in the field of disability support over the past 10 years. He has a Masters in Psychology from the University of Johannesburg and is also a Practicing Counselling Psychologist. As a person with a
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July is Mental Health Awareness Month, an opportunity for Disability Connect to profile depression, one of the most prominent mental illnesses globally, and to confirm that in some cases, depression can and should be declared a disability. If you suffer from a mental illness like depression, does it mean you have a disability? According to an
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