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How a broken city doubled South Africa’s literacy rate – without the government | SA News

16 November 2025 by Guest
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  • Between the Lines Investigating SA’s literacy crisis
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Between the Lines: Investigating SA’s literacy crisis

Over the coming weeks, this series of Mail & Guardian features will unpack South Africa’s literacy crisis: who is accountable for failures and how students, parents and teachers can hold duty-bearers to account, how teacher support transforms classrooms, what families can contribute when given the tools, and whether political will can overcome decades of institutional dysfunction.

We’ll hear from the 350 Rhodes University students who shared their own literacy journeys, and we’ll examine some of the surprising reasons learners in African-language…

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