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Godwin Khosa is on a crusade to make South Africa read again

National Education Collaboration Trust CEO Godwin Khosa, who wants the whole country to read, got his head out of a book to talk to Sam Mkokeli

10 November 2019 - 00:00 By Sam Mkokeli

He calls himself a “scatter reader” because he always has a couple of books on the go at the same time. This helps Godwin Khosa — the man at the centre of SA’s ambitious plans to improve literacy — to read about 40 books a year...

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