Sibonelo and I connected on the housing problem of the Disabled (Physically Challenged) people. Together we drafted the constitution for Disabled. There was an organization called IDABA linked to DPSA.

The Society for the Disabled was founded in our house by the late Baba Archie Gumede, the late Archbishop Hurley and Saloshrie Moodley, an attorney who did a lot of work for the A.N.C. There was a need for such a society as there were many workers who had lost limbs whilst on the shop floor and were left out in the cold, with no help from any quarter. I used to visit Baba Archie's house often in Clermont (outside Pinetown) with workers who had been injured whilst at work. Archbishop Hurley gave me thirty five thousand Rand to start the Society for the Disabled.

Rebecca worked at a private school in London. At Lyceum school in central London she really lived and breathed education and invested in helping children grow to their full capacity. Rebecca started collecting money from overseas. They raised money through a readathon and they sold my teddy bear sketches. She started a crèche. This crèche in Umlazi is called UTHINGO (Rainbow). They put up a fence for safety and bought tables and chairs, put a phone in and bought lots of food. The children weren't paying attention. They were always looking on the street. Rebecca put a security fence around the house. And we installed a telephone for Mrs. Mlaba. Rebecca bought four months groceries. Education is the key. The more aware you are the more non judgemental you are.

Paddy Kearney was having a peace march with Archbishop Hurley through town. Paddy asked me to invite some Disabled people from Umlazi to support this march. I went with all good intentions. I discussed this with the Disabled people of Umlazi. They said, “Hang on a moment Mr. Strydom, Paddy Kearney of Diakona sends you to us to come and join a march! You go back to Paddy Kearny and tell him if he organizes a march along Mangosutho Buthulezi highway with the whites to see how we are living, then we will join that march in the thousands.” That's when I discovered the population of Umlazi is about two point four million. It is the second biggest township in the Southern Hemisphere. When I went back to Paddy and gave him the message he was very angry with me. He said, “Dennis, you are always fighting.” I said, “Yes I am fighting for human rights. You must get your priorities in order.” I gave him a small little bible and said, “That is how man looks at the bible today. It has become so small. Man would rather worship cricket and rugby than the supreme power that controls the universe.”

I know the whole of Umlazi. I could do so much with my two hands. C Section is the poverty section, the welfare section, and the pension section. The Disabled were victimized worse then anybody else. They are the first people that should be attended to. There are no playing grounds for the children. All that these children talk about on the corners is where they are going to commit their next crime. Umlazi is full of guns. I have seen them there.