South Africa - 2008 - Education

National Reading Strategy

Ministry of Education, South Africa

The national reading strategy has a vision to ensure every South African learner becomes a fluent reader who reads to learn, and reads for enjoyment and enrichment. It underpins South Africa’s participation in United Nations development campaigns, including; the UNESCO Literacy Decade 2003-2013, and the Education for All (EFA) campaign, which aim to increase literacy rates by 50% by the year 2015.

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January 2022

The national reading strategy has a vision to ensure every South African learner becomes a fluent reader who reads to learn, and reads for enjoyment and enrichment. It underpins South Africa’s participation in United Nations development campaigns, including; the UNESCO Literacy Decade 2003-2013, and the Education for All (EFA) campaign, which aim to increase literacy rates by 50% by the year 2015.

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