Blind SA leads march to end ‘book famine’
https://www.thisability.co.za/2021/02/01/blind-sa-leads-march-to-end-book-famine/ By Mokgadi Maponya Blind SA has participated in a march to the Union Buildings, Pretoria to demand, among other things, the right for blind persons’ organisations to translate material into braille and other accessible formats and to import braille books into the country. The march, which took place on December 10, from the Department […]
Open the doors of learning for the blind
https://www.thisability.co.za/2021/01/30/blind-sa-open-the-doors-of-learning-for-the-blind/ By Nkhensani Hlungwani Blind SA has called on the Department of Basic Education (DBE) together with the provincial departments of education to provide blind and partially sighted pupils and teachers with information in braille format. In a media release posted on its website as part of celebrating Braille Awareness Day on January 4, the […]
Guide for parents with disabilities and Covid-19
Click the image below to read the guide.https://blindsa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/final_parents_guide_covid_19_fn.pdf
WBU statement for World Braille Day – 4 January 2021
ENDORSED AND AUGMENTED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN BRAILLE AUTHORITY [SABA] January 4th 2021 is world braille day. In 2018, the UN General Assembly officially designated the world braille day as a day to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for persons […]
World Braille Day 4 January 2021
Blind SA endorses the statement by the World Blind Union on the occasion of the World Braille Day, declared by the United Nations in 2018 as being the 4th of January annually. During this COVID-19 Pandemic and especially during this second wave of the pandemic, over 750000 blind and partially sighted people do not have […]
Media Release
Attention: Hon Thandi Modise, Speaker of Parliament Hon Duma Nkosi, Chair of Parliamentary Portfolio Committee (DTIC) Hon Amos Masondo, Chair of NCOP Cc: Hon Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa Hon Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Hon Nathi Mthethwa, Minister of Arts and Culture Hon Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic […]
Blind SA and ReCreate SA In association with SA Disability Alliance SA Braille Authority SA National Council for the Blind A2K Right to Know
*We Stand Together! Hands Off Our Livelihoods! Fair Copyright Now!* #BrailleIsNoCrime #FairRoyaltiesNow #FairUseNow On International Human Rights Day 2020, Blind South Africans unite with musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers and educators from across South Africa to demand that government respect their rights. Currently it is illegal for blind persons organisations to translate material into […]
You can help fight this unfairness
At school, blind learners need their teachers or partially sighted schoolmates to guide them around the buildings. That means touch – a hand on an elbow or a shoulder – and social distancing now makes that a problem. It would not be like this if these youngsters had, at an early age, been taught the […]
Blind SA Bookshare
Are you ready to catch up on your reading during the year-end break? Since 26 October 2020, blind persons have access to thousands of books in accessible formats. Blind SA Bookshare is a free library service that will enable blind and partially sighted persons to borrow hundreds of thousands of books in braille, daisy, audio […]
Blind SA President Address 10 November 2020
BLIND SA PRESIDENT NTSHAVHENI NETSHITUNI – STAFF ADDRESS10 NOVEMBER 2020 GREETINGS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT, AND THOSE WHO COULD NOT ATTEND; CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; AND ALL STAFF OF BLIND SA INTRODUCTION Standing before you showers me with the greatest honour one can ever imagine. I grew up in these buildings years ago as […]