Category Archives: Inclusive Education

NCPD AND SABC PARTNERSHIP OPENS SCHOOL DOORS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

17 learners placed at Hope School and more at Adelaide Tambo School; more await assessment [...]

Locked Out: The NCPD Decries the Systemic Exclusion of Children with Disabilities as Schools Reopen

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: As thousands of South African learners celebrate the first week of the [...]

LETTER TO THE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: CONCERN REGARDING MASSIVE CUTS TO SCHOOL FUNDING

As an advocacy rights organisation, and one that has historically espoused quality teaching and learning [...]

A Call to Action: Bridging the Divide in South Africa’s Inclusive Education

A Crisis Unfolding Now In October 2025, as children across South Africa returned from school [...]

NCPD celebrates doctorates of its staff members

Two doctors in the house! The National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) [...]

How South Africa’s Special Needs Education is Transforming Lives

Hailing from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape province, two young women who aced their Matric [...]

Update – March 2024: NCPDs fight for the dignity and human rights of children at Mthatha’s Ikhwezi Lokusa Special School

Mthatha’s silent, unfolding tragedyThe ‘dishcloth’ children of Ikhwezi Lokusa School denied their dignity and human [...]

A HEARTFELT REFLECTION ON INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES by Lubabalo Mbeki

THE DETERIORATING STATE OF IKHWEZI LOKUSA SPECIAL SCHOOL (EC): Today, as we commemorate the International [...]

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NCPDs fight for the dignity and human rights of children at Mthatha’s Ikhwezi Lokusa Special School

Therina Wentzel shared a heartening update, after a session with parents of learners at Mthatha’s [...]

Equal access to education for children with disabilities in SA

In a ground-breaking move, advocacy groups are taking the South African government to task over [...]