ANA reports that at the end of the first meeting of the Presidential Working group on Disability on Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa committed the government to empowering people with disabilities.
He called on government departments to commit to the inclusion of people with disabilities in carrying out their mandates and he called on the private sector to make similar commitments. More than 20 disability sector organisations attended the meeting, including Action in Autism, Epilepsy SA, the Association of Hearing Loss Accessibility and Development, Disability Workshop Development Enterprise, Deaf Federation of SA, the Albinism Society of SA, the Paralympic Committee, Down Syndrome SA and Disabled People SA. The sector highlighted five overarching goals for the attention and action of the Presidential Working Group on Disability. The representatives emphasised the need to implement programmes in government that supported people with disabilities. Strengthening the criminal justice system and other spheres to protect and bring to an end the victimisation and abuse of vulnerable groups and people with disabilities was also highlighted.
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