The real disability barrier is not impairment but exclusion
Daily Maverick | 16.06.2026 05:18
Fifty years ago, my generation resisted learning Afrikaans as a compulsory language in schools. Here we are today, in a constitutional democracy, promoting our twelfth official language, universally accessible, transcending all abilities, cultures and boundaries. Sign language is a unifier. Like any language, it has variations in “dialect”. Moves to mainstream sign language hit a high note last month.
