SALB Blog
SALB CEO Mandla Ntombela attends SCECSAL in Namibia
09 February 2021Our 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 2021Join 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 2021Feeling lonely during the pandemic? Here's what you can do...
Who was Louis Braille? - Louis Braille, the man who invented braille
07 January 2021Louis 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 2020The South African Library for the Blind has achieved a clean audit for the 2019/2020 Financial Year