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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.
Nelson Mandela Foundation questions role of Civil Society in securing election outcomes, Right to Read Campaign launches in Johannesburg.
They say the mayor is not visible and is inaccessible to the community that helped elect him.
The inability of 81% of our learners to read for meaning is an indicator of a system failing to provide all the inputs necessary to give children a reasonable opportunity to learn to read, argues Cameron McConnachie.