Towards the end of level four of the lockdown, Sassa offices reopened for applications for old age pensions and childcare and foster care grants, but not for disability grants
Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.
South Africa is failing to implement its mental and physical disability laws effectively despite government observing disability month this November.
Cash-strapped groups plead for more funds: Subsidies have fallen so short of the needs of NGOs that many face imminent closure, writes Heidi Swart.
Like other forms of mental illness, paedophilia can be contained and managed with therapy.
A study on poverty and disability has revealed that only 39% of disabled people in Johannesburg’s eight poorest wards are receiving disability grants.