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Literacy: Some of the nearly 400 delegates who attended the 2024 Makhanda Education Summit. They adopted a vision for the city to become the country’s leading educational hub by 2028. Photo: Rod Amner
AFRICAN LANGUAGE LITERACY

How a broken city doubled South Africa’s literacy rate – without the government

Civil society cannot solve the country’s literacy crisis on its own, because the scale is too vast and the resources required too substantial

  • Rod Amner
  • Simphiwe Xaka
9 min read