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We fail children living with disabilities

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Despite commendable work and persistent battles, not enough is being done for these learners
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New copyright law will benefit South Africans with disabilities

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South Africa's new Copyright Amendment Bill could help the country take an important step in tackling its own “book famine
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Listen to the voices of women with disabilities

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

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Mpumelelo Mhlongo is crushing it on the global stage, and has his eye on a third world record
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No school for 600 000 children

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

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Winner: Aller River Pilot Project
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Graduation ceremonies a success

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Autumn graduation ceremonies fairly conducted
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​Queerness, desire and disability

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Queer people with disabilities face double discrimination when it comes to sex.
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​Where queer and disabled intersect

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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’.
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Universities’ inclusion of disabled students is limited

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Universities must move beyond measuring inclusion based only on the number of students with disabilities they have enrolled each year.
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Traditional leaders ‘scared’ of disabled people

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

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Wheelchair tennis is grounded in clumsy mobility, but its popularity is soaring in South Africa.
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Intellectually disabled women in India ‘treated worse than animals’

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A recent report says that intellectually disabled women in India are routinely locked up in institutions where they are "treated worse than animals".
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Disabled children face uphill education battle

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Even though the Constitution guarantees disabled children the right to education, many don't go to school, or have great difficulty in doing so.
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Mountain bike technology behind off-road wheelchair

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Build mountain bike technology into a wheelchair and suddenly the hills open up to the handicapped, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
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Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

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