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- Nearly 8 in 10 government schools in South Africa do not have access to a library
- Almost all government schools in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo do not have libraries
- An estimated 81% of grade four learners could not read for meaning in 2021
It's difficult to instil a love of reading in young school children when 77% of South Africa's public schools do not have libraries. The Eastern Cape and Limpopo are the worst off where 93% of the schools in both of those provinces have no library facilities.
Barely a quarter (3,311) of government schools have access to a stocked school library.
An estimated 81% of grade four learners cannot read for meaning, according to a 2021 survey by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which assesses reading comprehension in different countries.
— 11 September, 2023Subscribe to the weekly newsletter for more charts like this
