bringing hope to all of us as South Africans. Mine is to debate on issues affecting people with disabilities. When Cabinet approved the White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 9 December 2015 we were as happy as this is work that started in 2003 by disabled people who attended a number of workshops that were convened around the country. The white paper to us is like a bible because it contains all issues relating to disability, progress made regarding the implementation of new policy. The emphasis of the white paper is on embedding disability inclusion into government's policies as well as its legislative, planning, budgeting, programming, monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems.