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    "id": 1166305,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1166305/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "id": 13188,
        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, if we tap the potential of leaners with disabilities, it will be a boom for us. This Bill talks about teachers with disabilities who are supposed to retire at the age of 65. The retirement age at 65 years should not be conditional, that even if you get a disability now and you are supposed to retire in three months’ time, it is not your wish that you have a disability. It is honourable for all teachers with disabilities to retire at 65 years so as to ensure that we maximise the potential of the few personnel that we have with disability. Persons with Disabilities (PWD) experience many challenges getting jobs hence most of them languish in poverty. They are not able to educate their children and so the cyclic nature of poverty continues in their lives. This is a Bill that is well meaning. I hope and believe that my fellow Senators will support this Bill so that it sees light at the end of the tunnel because they have always supported issues of disability. With these few remark I beg to move that the Special Needs Education Bill (Senate Bills No. 44 of 2021) be now read a Second Time. I request Sen. (Prof) Kamar to second."
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