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Learning our ABCs starts with four Ts. South Africa’s 81% illiteracy rate among Grade 4s has prompted several organisations to launch the Right to Read campaign to mobilise civil society to make early-grade literacy a national priority.
Government, civil society and the education sector are called to mobilise to prioritise the strengthening of early-grade literacy due to the high number of pupils who cannot read.