SABC Disability 360 - Motsweding FM

In our everyday lives we live in, we are prone to accidents of all sorts. Kids as well are vulnerable to incidents whether in-house or outside as well wherever they might be. These incidents might lead to long term or permanent damage to their internal and external body organs and thus obstruct with their functions. Today on our health feature we intend to tackle more into simpler detail the issue...

Human nature has always taught us that no man is an island. Everybody needs every other body to exist in and to be whole. It is for those reasons amongst many others why as humans we have family member, and as time does go by we do part ways with our families to join forces with whom we regard as our better half’s to start our other families. Unfortunately as life is unpredictable, the unfortunate...

In celebration and commemoration of women’s month, we continue to cherish and celebrate our women of honor and virtue for the greatness they have played in our personal lives and to the society as well. We also look at challenges they face and the possible solutions to them as well. Today on our disability feature we explore the possible ways and means of empowering women living with disabilities....

Born on August 4, 1958 in Zebediela, Transvaal. Kekana is South African singer songwriter who lost his sight at age five, and attended a school for the blind in Pietersburg, now know as Polokwane. During the school years, he nurtured his love for singing, and became a member of amateur groups during the teenage years. In 1979 and 1980, Kekana won what was then known as the SABC Black Music Award f...

Many people seem to think that disabled people are incapable of looking after themselves, let alone their children. This misinformed pre-conception is and has always followed disabled people for a long time from all walks of life. Disabled people not only have their own independence and competence, but also, their parenting capability questioned more frequently than able-bodied people. Being treat...

Puisano le sekgantshwane sa Wheelchair Tennis Kgothatso Montjane ka dikgwetlho le diphitlhelelo tsa gagwe, go akaretsa le go khwalifaela US Open

With the unemployment rates busy sky-rocketing like they have been lately in our country, the government has been relentlessly hard at work trying to convince people to work on entrepreneurial ventures, start their own businesses and create employment opportunities for themselves and other unemployed youth as well. Entrepreneurship is good in such a sense that it does not only create employment fo...

Just as the government has been hard at work in simplifying the lives of disabled people and making their environment and surrounding to be as disability friendly as possible, private sector is also trying its level best not to lack behind. The South African Revenue Services has recognized disability as a specific impairment that has a significant effect (or limitation) on one’s daily life, theref...

African continent has lately been affected by an on-going unacceptable norm of victimization of people living with Albinism. The victimization includes discrimination if not murders. The barbaric act of murders is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people can transmit magical powers. South Africa is also affected by these on-going Albinism victimizations. Stigmatization, kid...

South Africa has been praised and applauded by other states all over the world for having one of the best constitutions ever, one that does not exclude or segregate anybody anyhow. One of the most important pillars of a stable and progressive live is access to quality education, which is enshrined by the bill of rights and promoted by the constitution as well. The government has been hard at work...

One of the best things to ever happen to child is to grow up with siblings. It is wonderful and enjoyable for children to grow up in a house full of people with laughter, joy, happiness and a mood welcoming into a home. Be that as it may, a bit of a challenge may erupt when one of the kid may be disabled. This does somehow has an effect on other children, they now have to learn how to live, intera...

The youth days of any ordinary human being are mostly known to be the best. This is whereby one gets to find themselves, discover who they really are, let loose and just live freely and as active as they can. However there can be very dangerous and usually underrated silent slow killer, mental disorders amongst the youth. Mental health disorders are mostly popular amongst the youth, and the sad pa...

Life is one long journey that is both enjoyable to some and at most times sad to others. Challenges do emerge now and then, some are tough and some quite easily doable to others. This results in some giving up in life. Other people who were born able and come across a disability along in life do decide to hang in their boxing gloves, and give up. Dissability is not a condition one can be immune to...

Re buisana le Ipeleng Khunou aka The CrutchRunner o ya go taboga lebelo la 10km la Virginsport kwa London a tabogela Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund

Today in our disability feature we are looking into assistive methods/medication for people with injuries affecting their skeletal parts, or spinal cord injuries as well, being Orthopaedics. Orthopaedics can be defined as the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structur...

Re buisana Motshameki wa Afrika Borwa wa wheelchair tennis Kgothatso Montjane, yo e tla nnang mosadi wa ntlha wa motho motsho go tshameka kwa Wimbledon mono ngwaga

Lately people get derailed by challenges they come across in life from pursing their dreams. Those challenges they include loosing ability of their body organs, resulting in disability while others may just be a matter of things not working out and people give up. Today we have a chat with a man who lost sight/went blind from as early as he was three years old. But the blindness did not get in the...

Today in our disability feature we are looking at the Intergration our amputees back into the society and assisting them to carry on with their lives as simple as possible. Having been a fully able person, then all of the sudden you are disabled and have to constantly rely on other people to help you get my can be equally frustrating to a point whereby others can end up committing suicide. For som...

Re bua ka di dirisiwa tse di thusang batho ba ba nang le bogole ba pono gore ba itirele dilo ka bo bone, mme di akaretsang white cane, money template, liquid level indicator re lebeletse Katiso ya orientation and mobility. Moeng wa rona ke Boikhutso Queen Molefe yo eleng an orientation and mobility practitioner gotswa South Africa Mobility for the blind trust