The world will focus on eye care awareness as World Sight day is celebrated on 13th October 2022. This year’s theme is: “love your eyes”. This day, celebrated annually on the second Thursday of October is called to draw global attention on blindness and visual impairment. The League of Friends of the Blind [LOFOB] started this awareness with an outreach to Riversdale, Swellendam, George and surrounding areas. The LOFOB team […]
“You’re never too old to learn!” So says feisty 51 year-old Sadia Daniels, who despite being visually impaired, overcame the odds to complete her Matric and receive a Bachelor’s pass. Daniels says this is more than achieving a qualification, to her it’s a triumph over the challenges that blindness presented to her when her sight failed in a classroom many years ago. Daniels not only obtained a bachelors pass but […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
