Children and adults who are not good readers will be lost in the information society of today because of the high level of literacy required in virtually every area of our lives — from street signs to ATMs, from product descriptions to medicine dosage instruction, from newspapers to books. Partnerships, national policy and government spending are needed to develop a reading public.
South African Koto Bolofo has been picking up awards on the international festival circuit, so why have we never heard of him? Dinah Arnott finds out `SOME 30 years ago, a history teacher was accused of communist infiltration: a quotation from Karl Marx had been found in one of his text books. This was criminal […]