In part 2 of her investigation into the origin of sport for people with disabilities in South Africa, GERTRUDE SIERRA takes a look at its development In our July/August issue, we traced the founding of sport for people with disabilities – thanks to the work in 1948 of Dr Ludwig […]
Author: Gertrude Sierra
Sport for people with disabilities in South Africa
In part 1 of our two-part series, GERTRUDE SIERRA takes a look at sport for people with disabilities and how it all began. he Paralympic movement dates back to 1948, when Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a neurosurgeon at the Stoke Mandeville hospital in the United Kingdom, introduced wheelchair sports as part […]