| Title | 16. The Deaf Community of Cape Town (DCCT): breathing spaces, Deaf empowerment and sign language |
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| Landing page | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/200 |
| Publisher | UJ Press |
| Published on | 2025-05-29 |
| Long abstract | This chapter focuses on the establishment of the Deaf Community of Cape Town (DCCT) by some of the students who were in the protest in 1976. They responded to the needs of the Deaf people in the Western Cape at a time when little was being done for this community. These prophetic efforts were to have an effect on the later establishment of DeafSA, an organisation for Deaf people of all races in South Africa, which has successfully lobbied for South African Sign Language (SASL) to be accepted as the twelfth official language. |