Pretoria News Weekend

Blind SA wants rapid change to ‘discriminatory legislation’

THE PLIGHT of the blind and visually impaired to access material, including books and textbooks on which there is copyright, will come under the spotlight in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

Blind SA will ask the court to declare the apartheid-era Copyright Act unconstitutional.

It will be argued that the 1978 legislation infringes on the rights of persons

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