SA's reading crisis: We are load shedding our children, warns Mlambo-Ngcuka

South Africa's former deputy president, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has issued a dire warning to the government that they are making the same mistake with education as with Eskom.

Shocking new research shows that only 18% of South African Grade 4 children can read for meaning, taking the country back to 2011 reading levels.

In 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that all 10-year-old children should be able to read for meaning by 2030.