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Life Matters | Education: Declining Literacy Rates in South Africa

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Recent international studies, including the PIRLS report, have delivered that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa cannot read for meaning in any language. Is this a failure of our teachers, a lack of resources like libraries, or a deeper systemic issue with our language policies?

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