Parliament can uphold the Constitution by passing the Copyright Amendment Bill — again
Article taken from https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2020-07-12-parliament-can-uphold-the-constitution-by-passing-the-copyright-amendment-bill-again/ Implementing the Copyright Amendment Bill could be a rare instance of the stroke of a pen having immediate and far-reaching benefits for access to knowledge in disadvantaged communities. Why, then, did President Cyril Ramaphosa bow to pressure and return it to Parliament after sitting on it for 15 months? In June […]
Blind SA Constitutional Challenge Of The Copyright Amendment Bill
MEDIA RELEASE 19 JUNE 2020 Blind SA instituted legal proceedings in the Constitutional Court against President Ramaphosa in May 2020 to compel him to perform his duties in terms of Section 79 of the Constitution of South Africa vis-à-vis the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB). The CAB had been with the President since March 28th 2019. […]
BLIND SA Assist
After a very successful Blind SA Assist held on 8 June 2020, Blind SA is to have a Zoom event at 2 PM on Monday, 22 June 2020. The magazine programme will include: Radio broadcasting by the visually impaired by Quinton Pendle UEB and UBC Unified English Braille and Unified Braille Codes in South Africa […]
Blind SA rejects with contempt the insinuations by Professor Sadulla Karjiker in his article published on 8th June 2020
Blind SA rejects with contempt the insinuations by Professor Sadulla Karjiker in his article published on 8th June 2020. Blind SA operates as a pressure group, and had been, and continues to be, assertive on defending the rights of blind people, and had done this without any external influence. Blind SA and the Broader Blindness […]
When the world turns against them, true heroes stand up
You can multiply Mpini’s reach as she sets her energy to work teaching other blind and visually impaired folk how to create their own sources of income… Did you see it coming? I didn’t. Lockdown’s lasting human toll will undoubtedly be the massive loss of jobs. Worse, these hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of desperate […]
COVID-19 Lockdown For Visually Impaired Learners
The main objective of Blind SA is to advocate for the basic human rights and accessible, equal, and inclusive services for blind and partially sighted people. The Department of Basic Education and the Provincial Education Departments have failed to provide adequate resources, supervision, and oversight to blind and partially sighted learners during the National Lock […]
Blind SA serves papers on the President and others at the Constitutional Court in respect of the Copyright Amendment Bill
Blind SA has served papers on the President and other respondents (Minister of DTI and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation) at the Constitutional Court (Case Number: CCT 96/20). The application was brought in terms of Section 79 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa by Blind SA, a National Disable People’s Organisation. […]
Economic Impact on blind and partially sighted entrepreneurs and workers
Economic Impact on blind and partially sighted entrepreneurs and workers at Sheltered and Protective Workshops due to National Lock Down as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic Blind SA received numerous requests from blind and partially sighted entrepreneurs and workers from Sheltered and Protective Workshops for urgent assistance during the National Lock Down. These entrepreneurs were not […]
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19 Actions for an inclusive Covid-19 response
This Call for Action is produced by Blind SA (A National DPO) inconjunction with the World Blind Union (the global organisation representing the estimated 253 million persons who are blind and partially sighted worldwide). The actions are in line with recommendations by other Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (DPOs) and reflect the urgent needs of […]