A local mother filmed her seven-year-old son practising his Afrikaans reading and shared the clip on TikTok, where it touched ...

The 2030 Reading Panel has released their fifth report, which analyses data from the Department of Basic Education’s Funda Uphumelele National Survey.

The 2030 Reading Panel’s 2026 report reveals that reading levels for South African children are still at crisis point – but some progress is being made. Released today, and drawing on nationally ...

The SABC has admitted it made mistakes in reshuffling and reducing Afrikaans content over the last three years without conducting thorough research on the potential impact. Since 2023, the broadcaster ...

“Your news. In your language.” After two years of constant reshuffles, the SABC promises Afrikaans news will return to SABC2 at 18:30, seven days a week from February 9. According to AfriForum, since ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a ...

Construction on the newest campus for the private Afrikaans higher education institution, Akademia, has officially started. The first phase of the construction started this week at the group’s site in ...

Queen tells reading campaign that listening counts too – and the publishing industry increasingly agrees Queen Camilla has met many disreputable characters in her time as a royal, but her encounter ...

Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof has been crowned the top Afrikaans school in South Africa with 3.62 distinctions per candidate in the 2025 matric exams. Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof is a government high school ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...