TOM EATON | Reading between the lines is easier said than done in South Africa
Instead of splurging R900m on Tottenham’s sleeve, it would go a long way to help our children’s literacy
08 February 2023 - 20:36
If you want to know the state of the nation, don’t bother listening to the thousands of hollow words read by Cyril Ramaphosa today, or the thousands written by journalists and analysts tomorrow. Instead, simply look at these 15 words in the latest report on the state of childhood literacy in South Africa: “There is ... no national budget that has been allocated to reading interventions or reading resources.”..
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