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While the country continues to debate the future of healthcare reform through National Health Insurance (NHI), millions of South Africans are dealing with a far more immediate reality which is the rising cost of accessing care today

Doctors launch digital solution to boost health literacy in South Africa

The digital solution was designed to inform patients, improve healthcare outcomes and protect doctors

More than two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women. Working to change this can bring profound social and economic benefits. (Graphic: John McCann)

Illiteracy costs South Africa’s economy R119 billion, report says

Low literacy levels are a financial and social burden on the country

The problem with South Africa’s education system is that it is mired in the politics of language and class. (Madelene Cronje/ M&G)

Illiteracy is part of a ticking time bomb

Unemployment, corruption, unfair distribution of wealth and the frustration at the cost of living are all powder kegs waiting to explode.

Changing lives: Mpumy Ndlovu. (Images4Life)

Let our children play – and inspire them to read and learn

We must empower them through literacy and enable them to imagine better prospects for themselves through stories and storytelling.

Graphic: John McCann

Good news, Chicken, the sky isn’t falling

Surprised? Which is to be expected when the media thrives on keeping us in a state of alarm

The leadership of Cosatu.

It takes a village to end illiteracy

According to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 78% of South African grade four pupils cannot read with comprehension

Run away: The protest in Ivory Park

Learning can’t prosper in a broken society

Social ills, plus the effect of poverty, are reflected in our schools and require redress at many levels

More than two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women. Working to change this can bring profound social and economic benefits. (Graphic: John McCann)

Literacy must start at infancy

Parents and early childhood educators are as vital as foundation phase teachers

Tourists’ millions elude the poor locals’ nets

Boa is 19, the sixth of 11 children. With all of his family, he lives in a small thatched two-room house on the outskirts of Siem Reap.

Still on the back burner?

The government must clarify its adult education priorities, argues <b>Jackie Carroll</b>.