DSD: Respect the rights of people with disabilities
The Department of Social Development is calling on South Africans to respect the rights of disabled people in the country.
Deputy Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu made the comments at the department's graduation ceremony for people with disabilities in Inanda, north of Durban, yesterday.
Bogopane-Zulu says people living with disabilities are capable of learning and achieving the same skills as every citizen.
More than a hundred people received their qualifications in computer studies, as part of Disability Rights Awareness Month, yesterday.
“People must respect the rights of people with disabilities. They must respect them,” Bogopane-Zulu says, “It’s very important that our attitudes towards them change”.