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Posted inEquality

Being disabled doesn’t make you special, being South African does

Reader Blog by Reader Blog 1 October 20146 October 2014

By Maggie Marx In December 2005, I took my driver’s test in a small town in the Free State. I told the friendly, albeit mumbling officer that I was severely hearing impaired. I also told him that during the yard test I would be able to decipher his hand signals, but that when he got […]

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