South Africa’s official African languages mask dozens of dialects, affecting millions, especially in rural areas

International Literacy Day offers a time for reflection on the situation in Africa, where gains have been made in literacy figures but where much remains to be done

Hundreds of thousands of children don’t have access to the internet and need physical resources, such as dictionaries, to further their education

Hundreds of thousands of children don’t have access to the internet and need physical resources, such as dictionaries, to further their education

Learners must be given a breadth of skills, beyond literacy and numeracy, to prepare them for an ever-changing world

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