The actress and media personality either went live especially to document the incident or was already live and chose to continue. At the beginning of the video Ntando Duma asks, “So, what’s your problem? What’s your point?”
Elsewhere in the video, she can be heard asking the woman warning her, “How do you know I don’t use a wheelchair?” A futile performance as her audience knows that she doesn’t use a wheelchair.
In the background, the woman can be heard asking Ntando Duma how she would feel if someone close to her needed the parking spot dedicated for the disabled but was unable to use it because someone who didn’t need it was occupying it?
While the video was trained on her the whole time, Ntando Duma made sure to let her followers and viewers know that it was just a white woman trying to police her.
Perhaps, hoping for resounding support and a chorus of “abelungu bayadina” from her audience.
“You must tell that to your mother. F you and your mother”, she tells the woman.
Disabled parking bays are closer to entrances and are bigger for a reason. They offer space and access for people who have mobility issues, such as people who use wheelchairs including older persons.
Disability Info South Africa cites the Road Traffic Act 29 of 1989, “Municipalities provide for special parking spaces for people with prescribed disabilities or persons who transport them. If you have a disabled parking disc, you need to display the disc clearly in your windscreen.”
Another video recently went viral after its creator showed himself faking an injury to avoid a long queue at the airport and get wheeled around, taking away valuable resources from disabled passengers.
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