At the launch of the Reading and Literacy Strategy 2026–30, reading was framed as fundamental to the entire schooling experience. The notion that reading is the air that we…
Seventeen years later, Mervyn Sloman reflects on The Book Lounge thriving in the digital age and building reading community through Open Book Festival
Lebo Mazibuko’s second novel, Fabrics of Love, looks at themes of family trauma, black womanhood, absent fathers and heritage
The quiet power of Moses Seletisa’s Sepedi poetry and Sabata Mokae’s Setswana novels
Stories from our rich heritage provide teachers with an affordable, accessible way to improve literacy levels, teaching children to read in their home language
Improving access to material written in African languages would encourage kids to discover more about their history and culture
The Love Books campaign by Ladles of Love aims to couple feeding with reading
Helping a novice reader is so much more than teaching them the names of letters
One example is the 1 000 literacy champions trained by Nal’ibali to encourage families and children to read together
Teaching children the joy of reading is not only the responsibility of schools. There are many ways in which we can impart this precious gift to them
Stories can help us find our way back to health, hope and possibility
The Mail & Guardian asked a few of the regular contributors to the ThoughtLeader platform to give us their views on the top three books they read this year
Revisiting a childhood holiday spot — Chintsa in the Eastern Cape — helped to kickstart recovery from burnout and depression
The online publication’s annual list celebrates not only the sheer abundance of African literature but its daring, new directions
Imraan Coovadia’s new book examines how poison has shaped political affairs in Southern Africa
The organisation argues that the Copyright Act is unconstitutional because it violates the human rights of blind people. The case will be heard on 21 September
More than two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women. Working to change this can bring profound social and economic benefits
Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…
Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?
It will also support practitioners at 40 early childhood development centres to make use of a literacy-themed learning programme and provide practical training and materials to…
