SALB Blog

Training was conducted by Mr. Deenadaylan Moodley, from Pretoria. He is a South African Training Facilitator for the Daisy Consortium based in the UK.

SALB Launches Tactile Book Competition

^{14 April 2021}

'Create a Tactile Illustrated Book' COMPETITION

SALB announces international partnership with Typhlo and Tactus

^{31 March 2021}

SALB and Typhlo and Tactus form partnership

South African Library for the Blind launches mobile studio in Mdantsane

^{20 March 2021}

The department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture in the Eastern Cape in partnership with the South African Library for the Blind (SALB) launched audio book studios in the Mdantsane Public Library on the 19th of March 2021

SALB CEO Mandla Ntombela attends SCECSAL in Namibia

^{09 February 2021}

Our CEO Mandla Ntombela is currently attending the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and South African Library and information Association (SCECSAL) Countries in Namibia. SCECSAL is a regional forum for library and information associations in Africa.

Reading aloud boosts memory

^{05 February 2021}

Join millions around the world as we celebrate the power of reading aloud with the twelfth annual World Read Aloud Day.

SALB Mobile Studio in Mdantsane being setup

^{04 February 2021}

SALB members take part in a read aloud event

^{03 February 2021}

Feeling lonely or isolated during the Pandemic?

^{28 January 2021}

Feeling lonely during the pandemic? Here's what you can do...

Who was Louis Braille? - Louis Braille, the man who invented braille

^{07 January 2021}

Louis Braille was born on 4 January 1809 in Coupvray, a little town outside of Paris. At the age of three he played in his father, a harness maker’s workshop and suffered an injury to his eye and was blinded as a result of the infection that spread to both eyes. Louis Braille was educated at the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles, during a time when braille had not been developed. Despite this, Louis Braille received a good education, developed his musical talents and later, became a much-loved teacher and went on to devise a reading and writing system for the blind which would be used worldwide and become available in many languages of the world, including Japanese, Russian and Greek.

SALB achieves clean audit for 2019/2020 Financial Year

^{01 October 2020}

The South African Library for the Blind has achieved a clean audit for the 2019/2020 Financial Year