THISABILITY Newspaper

Dr  SUKHRAJ-ELY : Blind Advocate of the High Court, public policy expert, and global disability rights champion — now Acting Director-General of the DWYPD PRETORIA: The Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Hon. Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga, MP, appointed Dr Praveena Sukhraj-Ely as Acting Director-General of DWYPD.

Durban attorney, Susan Abro, who served as an Acting High Court Judge before returning full-time to private practice because she missed working directly with people. A conversation about longevity, sight, wine, and the quiet business of leaving strangers stronger than she found them.

Oticon Zeal Hearing Aid Now Available in South Africa It’s an AI driven hearing aid that is changing lives. The nearly invisible Oticon Zeal™ has arrived in South Africa and is now available through leading independent hearing care professionals country wide. Imagine being hearing-impaired and connecting your ears seamlessly to your phone or laptop, catching every airport announcement and controlling your hearing experience from your phone – all without anyone noticing.

The Women's Humanity Festival at Artscape in 2019 This August, the 20th annual Artscape Women’s Humanity Festival will transform Cape Town into a powerful platform for dialogue, healing, activism and artistic expression under the theme A Place For All, with the sub-theme: Women in Action, Vroue in Aksie and Abafazi Kwintshukumo.

Adhil Ramnath is set to audition for Top Billing as the first-ever Deaf person Deaf representation in media is a mission for Adhil Durban, South Africa — The brief was the same for everyone: one minute, one camera, one shot to prove you belong on Top Billing. But when Adhil Ramnath set up his own frame and spoke in the language that is fully his own — South African Sign Language — he did something that moves the conversation about who gets to be seen on mainstream South African television.

Part of the youth that participated at the Nike event Johannesburg – 18 June 2026 – Special Olympics South Africa (SOSA), in partnership with Nike, the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), hosted an inspiring Youth Day Celebration at the Nike Shapa Centre in Soweto.

SADA Honoured Jace Nair, Ari Seirlis and Dr. Emile Gouws- People Who Refused to Wait for Permission 3 Honours awarded at the annual SADA Gala Dinner There is a particular kind of South African who looks at a locked door and decides, quietly and without much fuss, that it is going to open. On 5 June 2026, the South African Disability Alliance (SADA) gathered to honour three of them. The evening was not really about trophies.

Vuleka School learners on their first meeting with Musa E.

JOHANNESBURG — When the South African Disability Alliance (SADA) gathers on the evening of Friday, 5 June 2026, it will not simply be for a gala dinner. It will be a deliberate, high-stakes gathering of people who have decided that inclusion is not a future aspiration — it is a present-day responsibility.

Unmasking: Lifting the veil on autism in women A new South African awareness campaign and feature documentary, Unmasking, is shifting the national conversation about autism — particularly the women who have spent lifetimes being misread, mislabelled and missed entirely by a system that did not know how to see them.