By Pascale Bakos Head of Communications at Afrika Tikkun Bambanani
By the time a child reaches Grade 4, the foundations needed to understand a story, interpret a question and express an idea should already be firmly established. Yet for far too many South African children, these foundations remain fragile.
The Progress in International Reading Literacy…
According to the Department of Higher Education and Training, literacy is and always will be a topic of conversation in South Africa, where 3.7 million people are illiterate. The reasons for these illiteracy rates are vast and range from the legacy of Apartheid to the cost of books and other materials needed for better reading…
Silas Pillay, Director of Academics at Nokuphila Primary and Pre-Primary School, believes literacy played a key role in the vision and mantra of the resistant movement in the struggle against apartheid and is at the heart of South Africans addressing educational inequalities. Because, not only did the apartheid government control access to education, which were poorly…