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. >> my name's ntswaki tsoliwe. i'm 31 years old. >> the kind of life that i seek to live is on an epic scale and really big. and i think there's a reason for that. i think because i know that i'm dying. i know, because i have a degenerative disability and because i know the older i get, the weaker i become, there's an urgency at the back of my mind. and because of that urgency, i don't have time to play small. i think that the vast majority of people with disabilities in south africa are incredibly disenfranchised, to the point of being invisible. people with disabilities disappear into the background. we don't see them. we don't hear from them. there's already overwhelming poverty and overwhelming inequality and unemployment in south africa for your non-disabled person. but for disabled south africans, it's compounded by the anti-disability society in which we live -- which is not just a south african problem, but i would argue, a global problem. >> on the street, people feel pity for me. they say "why is it so di