The Education Minister promised all schools would have a library by 29 November - but there's no chance that deadline will be met
Three quarters of public schools still don’t have libraries, in spite of a 2013 promise
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Three quarters of public schools still don’t have libraries, in spite of a 2013 promise
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The money will be used to purchase books in the mother tongue of learners, and distributed to libraries across the country.
First published by GroundUp. Learners who have already lost many months of schooling because of the Covid-19 pandemic are being dealt a second blow, as donor funding shifts away from literacy initiatives at a time that schools need these most. Lunga Nqadolo, managing director of The Bookery in Cape Town, says donors have understandably been focused on school nutrition and protection against Covid this year. Yet this is a time learners need books, libraries and literacy initiatives more than ever, to help them catch up lost time. “We need to feed them and then teach them,” she says. The Bo...