#BrailleIsNoCrime Help legalise braille books
#BrailleIsNoCrime Help legalise braille books Less than 0.5% of published works is available in braille and the majority are published by NPO’s such as Blind SA. President Ramaphosa held the Copyright Amendment Bill on his desk for fifteen months before he referred it to Parliament citing constitutional reasons on 16 June 2020, this after Blind […]
Blind SA Partners with Benetech to Launch Blind SA Bookshare Library 01 September 2020
Nonprofits team up to bring equal access to books for South Africans with reading barriers. Blind SA has signed a partnership with US Based nonprofit, Benetech, to establish a free library of accessible ebooks for blind and low-vision South Africans, as well as those with print disability. Members will have access to more than half […]
Free Covid-19 educational booklet available in e-braille and audio formats
DBE and PED LTSM and Inclusive Education Coordinators, School Principals Pioneer Printers has taken it upon itself to make the “Duma Says” Educational Booklet accessible to the visually impaired as a means to raise awareness of the Covid-19 pandemic. The educational book is available in the following formats to visually impaired persons: E-Braille (BRF) format […]
Article by Dineo Madile
My name is Dineo Madile, I am 38 years old. I lost my eye sight in 2006 meaning I was not born blind. I went to a normal school from grade 1 until grade 12, I passed my Grade 12 in 2001and Graduated in 2005 and as I mentioned before I became blind a year […]
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, […]