Deputy Speaker, there are a lot of families out there in the rural areas that are just living with people with disabilities but they are not known. Perhaps we may encourage that the people in the rural areas to go to the traditional leaders and they may be encouraged to assist in this regard so that we know who are these people, where do they stay and how they can be assisted.
You can imagine now a child who has not gone to school up to the age of 13 years because nothing is done about
that. Of course, we know that the department is doing something about it but it is not enough, so we should all come together and try to assist our people with disabilities.
We should also go to these areas and speak to the people that are there because we've got ward councillors in these areas who can assist the department, from local government, to give us the information so that we can be in a position to assist.
The 2% that has been put by the department for the employment of people with disabilities seems no to be working very much. It is worse now when it is 7%; perhaps this may be a dream. But now we should try to ... having given skills to these people in their centres, because they are centres for people with disabilities and they are given skills but now, this should be made use of, they should be employed, not just having skills then not being employed.
Most of the departments now are not adhering to this 2%, so, that should be discouraged. For instance, in our AIC
constituency in Gauteng, we did try to meet this 50% because we've got people now with disabilities who are employed in that office by AIC as a party there. So, that is very good, it should be appreciated. So, [Time expired.]
This department now has got unqualified audit report that is ... we do support.
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