Clinics in rural areas often have hundreds of pamphlets on health issues, but very few of these well-intended leaflets reach their target audience. About 30% of South African adults are functionally illiterate and this figure is often higher in rural communities where many pamphlets end up as fuel for the household fire.
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/ 17 September 2004
”Earlier this year a colleague and I turned left off the N1 to the Gariep Dam area. The dam, once named after Hendrik Verwoerd, was part of the grand Orange River Project of the late 1960s. The main resort still sits in a time warp reminiscent of this era.” Escape visited some forgotten towns whose citizens survived being washed out by an apartheid-era dam-turned-resort.