Discover your triggers How you manage your fatigue will depend partly on whether other Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms and lifestyle factors are having an effect. Analysing these can be a valuable first step in identifying how to minimise the problem. Fill in a fatigue diary Rate your fatigue levels at […]

Visitors to the Clarkson, Hammond and May Live (CHML) Festival – previously known as the Top Gear Festival – had a surprise waiting for them, or was it a wake-up call? CAROLINE RULE reports Lovers of speed, power and fast cars discovered that just because a person needs to use […]

Casual Day celebrates its 21st birthday this year. Since its inception it has raised a total of R222 million for persons with disabilities All over the country South Africans are planning their outfits for the day. Says project leader Vanessa du Plessis: “Use your imagination and surprise us with your […]

In April 2002, George Mongwayi’s life changed forever. However, he refused to let his circumstances get the better of him. CLAIRE RENCKEN went to Soweto to meet this inspirational artist. Thirteen years ago, after work one evening, George, only 25 at the time, was walking home from a train station […]

We introduce a heartwarming and inspiring new book by South African writer and broadcaster Peter Wise. You may have heard Peter Wise, aka “The Wiseman”, on the radio in southern Africa over the past 30-odd years or have come to know him personally. Peter was born with a rare condition […]

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 […]

Couch potato or health nut, we hope you’ll find something in this product review to suit your body strength and energy level Many of us put exercise off as something to do “tomorrow”, or think that exercise = pain, or just think that “I’m disabled – this is as good […]

At home in the bush – that’s how Bennie Erasmus feels in his FJ Cruiser. The more rugged the better! Bennie Erasmus’s dream of becoming a professional hunter was shattered very abruptly when he broke his neck at the age of 18, when a friend rolled his 4×4. By then, […]