Copyright Bill in Parliament on 18 August 2020
Some documents and audio of Parliamentary Portfolio Committee DTIC 18 August 2020 proceedings on the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB). The Blind SA Constitutional Court action forced the President to refer the CAB to Parliament on 16 June 2020. DTIC Background Document Audio of Proceedings MEDIA STATEMENT TRADE AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE BRIEFED ON PRESIDENT’S RESERVATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE COPYRIGHT […]
Petition Secondary abuse of blind and visually impaired women by Law Enforcement Agencies
Blind and visually impaired women are also victims of gender based violence – intimate partner violence, domestic violence, rape and sexual, emotional and psycho-social abuse. The incidents are not reported upon by Law Enforcement Agencies since the cases/incidents are generally not recorded by officials. Blind and visually impaired women are generally informed by police officials […]
E-filing Presentation To Members Of Blind SA
INTRODUCTION In support of the President’s call to the Covid-19 pandemic, that Social Distancing be observed at all times and that we should at most stay indoors and limit movement, SARS is responding by rapidly enhancing its efforts to further simplify the tax return filing requirements for individual taxpayers and removing the need to travel […]
BlindSA Women’s Month Launch
Speech for Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize, Deputy Minister in the Presidency: Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities BlindSA Women’s Month Launch 05 August 2020 “Gender Based Violence: Resources available to blind and partially sighted women affected by GBVF” By Deputy Minister Prof Hlengiwe Mkhize of the Department of Women Youth and Persons with Disabilities in the […]
Nomalanga Malekane
I’m Nomalanga Malekane, a 44 year old woman from Johannesburg I’m visually impaired. I was mugged and stabbed on my way to work so it wasn’t easy to accept that I was totally blind. I got married to my childhood sweetheart that’s when I experienced all the abuse you can think of, at first I […]
Irene Azwifaneli Mashele
My name is Irene Mashele, a 32 year-old woman born in Bela Bela Limpopo Province’ I was born with a Chronic condition known as Rheumatoid Arthritis resulting in my eyesight been badly affected and developing cataracts which ophthalmologist tried operating on, but they keep on re-appearing. I then decided to accept myself as I am, […]
The Plea From Blind And Visually Impaired People
Blind SA, a National Disable People’s Organisation focuses on the three major challenges impacting upon blind and visually impaired people and possible action to be taken. Education Crisis for blind and visually impaired learners due to COVID-19 pandemic #EducateMe Blind SA has been negotiating with the Department of Basic Education from before the National Lock […]
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. […]
World Read Aloud Day
Blind SA in conjunction with SA Braille authority and Nali’Bali hosted a successful World Read Aloud Day with fourteen Schools for the Blind on 21 February 2019. 646 blind and partially sighted learners participated in reading the story Where are you by Ann Walton illustrated by Rico, and also participated in the spelling and comprehension […]
Voting aid for voters with disabilities and special needs
The Electoral Commission (IEC), together with the South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB), has developed a voting aid, the Universal Ballot Template (UBT), to assist persons with disabilities and special needs to have an independent and secret vote during elections. The UBT can be used by: Blind and partially-sighted people Low-vision users People […]