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South African education and employment NGO youth@WORK says tools to improve literacy rates are available and hold the key to alleviating the burden on the country’s education system.
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ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

NGO youth@work launches tool to tackle literacy crisis in South Africa schools

This comes after a 2021 study showed that only 19% of grade four pupils could read for meaning in any language

Mandisa Ndlovu