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South Africa's literacy crisis: our app could help young readers by using home language and English

By Laurette Marais, Senior Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Laurette Pretorius, Professor Extraordinarius, Stellenbosch University

Literacy changes lives: in Unesco’s words, it “empowers and liberates people, … reduces poverty, increases participation in the labour market and has positive effects on health and sustainable development”.

But in South Africa, 8 out of 10 children cannot read for meaning by the…

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