‘South Africa Literacy Rate Dropping’: Experts
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South African education experts report that basic literacy among the nation’s youth has dropped since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and add that 30 percent of children entering grade two have minimum knowledge of the alphabet and that majority of grade four students struggle with basic reading comprehension.
For more, VOA’s Jan Bornman speaks to educators and authorities from Johannesburg.