[blindza] Article: DA launches Braille manifesto
- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "NAPSA Blind" <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:15:01 +0200
DA launches Braille manifesto
March 25 2014 at 01:23pm
By SAPA
Cape Town - Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille launched a Braille version
of her party's 2014 election manifesto on Tuesday.
"This is a first for South Africa. Following this handover today, we will make
copies of this Braille manifesto available at every DA office in the country,"
she said, speaking at the headquarters of the organisation League of Friends of
the Blind (LOFOB) in Grassy Park, Cape Town.
The manifesto - titled "Together for Change, Together for Jobs" - would also be
available at all provincial offices of the SA National Council of the Blind, at
the Grahamstown Library for the Blind, at LOFOB, and at the disability desks of
universities around the country.
"We are doing this at substantial cost to the DA, but we believe it is
necessary so that visually impaired South Africans can engage in the political
process fully."
Zille said decision-makers and politicians had been "slow off the mark" in
understanding that, for the visually impaired, Braille was literacy.
"It is not enough to say the right thing. It is essential to follow through
with concrete action steps," she said.
According to the SA National Council for the Blind, there are about one million
blind and partially-sighted people in South Africa. - Sapa
Source URL:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/da-launches-braille-manifesto-1.1666017#.UzGOmE2KDoY
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