Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) welcomes the admission of the three blind matric students of the Efata School for the Blind by the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) to study next year after they were earlier rejected by the same institution;
2) notes that this about-turn by the NMMU follows the publication of this story in the Herald newspaper a week before;
3) recalls that the university's reason for rejecting the pupils was the lack of facilities to accommodate blind students;
4) further recalls that the NMMU's vice chancellor reversed the university's admissions office's decision to reject the pupils' applications;
5) believes that the vice chancellor was correct in his argument that "declining access to any student on the basis of disability per se is unconstitutional and cannot be permitted"; and
6) congratulates the NMMU on reversing the rejection of the admission of the pupils as well as the Herald newspaper for exposing the plight of these disabled pupils.
Agreed to.