Having to accept and learn to live with a dissability condition at a later stage of one’s life can be a bit tricky and difficult, as one has already confined themselves over the past years to a life of being abled and not needing any assistance anyhow from anyone about anything at all.
Now having to live with a dissability condition can be challenging, luckily for South Africans there are many organizations that goes an extra mile in ensuring that disabled people do get the relevant support needed in order to ensure simpler and better abilities of ensuring they do live well.
Today we look into a provincial organization that seeks to go an extra mile in ensuring that blind people do get all the necessary support and skills needed in order to ensure that they are independent.

Disability is one of the most common lifestyle challenges the society has come to accept and constantly making the environment easier and friendlier to the disabled people. Currently there are many who were born and grew up fully abled, until coming across an incident or illness that turned their lives around.

With us today we have a disabled student from the University of Witwatersrand, Ms. Ntoko Christina Katlego Mlambo, a final year law student. At age three due to genetic disposition Miss Mlambo was diagnosed with chronic high astigmatism with keratoconus and later in life with amblyopia. She is not totally blind but partially sighted. Keratoconus means her cornea is very thin and shaped like a cone which causes sensitivity to light and distorted vision. Astigmatism means she is both short sighted and far sighted. The vision is blurry, and she cannot see both objects that are far and near. Amblyopia is a condition where her eyes are now lazy because they have become so dependent on glasses that they no longer perform their functions

With us today we have a disabled student from the Sol Plaatjie University, Ms. Dimpho Moalahi. Ms. Moalahi presents with a very rare kind of disability that finds itself residing well around her spine, causing it not be straight or well aligned as it is supposed to be. This results in extreme back pains whenever she walk a little too much, carries heavy materials, tries to run. Even falling asleep is a great deal of work as she has to go through pains in her back, specifically on her big swollen lump on the back of her right shoulder blade.

Today we are in a good positive mood, the day we have been long awaiting to hand over a brand new laptop to a deserving female disabled student. With us today we have a disabled student from the University of North West, Ms. Miracle May, an B-tech IKS student.
Ms. May is indeed a miracle just like her name. She presents with a very rare kind of disability called Moebius Syndrome. This results in multiple disabilities of physical, hearing and visual nature. Ms. May's facial muscles do not function at all, hence she cannot smile with her face but with her heart

Disability can be a problem or a challenge for most people in a workplace, however there are those individuals who are able to perform their duties very well irrespective of being disable. Molebogeng Mokgatla talks to Rachel Matlhaba is a Senior Admin at Transnet about her journey at Transnet and she was proud to share with listeners that being disabled is not a challenge to her.

“Go tshela ka bogole ole motsadi, o nale bana/lelapa go bokete- nyana, ka gonne bana gago ba solofetse gole gontsi mo go wena gore oba tlamele” ano ke mafoko aga Mme Mmathapelo Seitshokelo a buisana le Molebogeng Mokgatla ka mokgwa o seemo sa gagwe sa botshelo se amang bokgoni jwa gagwe jaaka motsadi.

Dissability condition has to somehow have an effect on people, either the disabled themselves or those related/close by to the disabled person, it can either have it's own effects be it emotionally and psychologically.
Men are generally known or presumed to be the toughest as compared to their female counterparts.
Now for a man to have to adapt to and live with a any form of a disability condition can be somehow a bit tough on him, emotionally, psychologically and even physically. Men like to see themselves as the fixers of their household appliances and labourers in general, which might prove to be a bit difficult when having a physical dissability.

For many years Albinism Society has been struggling with not only the stigma, but violence directed unto them that is motivated by misdirected myths.
In this previous week the world observed and commemorated international albinism awareness day. The overall aim of the day is simply to celebrate and appreciate people with Albinism and also inform/educate the rest of the society of what Albinism is all about, that will help greatly in driving away stigma the society attaches to the Albinism society.

Disability can be an emotionally draining challenge for many, both young and old, and the disabled and people surrounding them as well.
But for the 20 years old Calvin Kamogelo Mogajane it has been a different story, the blind author has up to thus far written and published three books regardless of not having a sight.
Mogajane realized his potential as a write way too early when he was still a kid, and decided to put to good use his born talent of writing regardless of being able to see and write like any other people or not.