Nearly a quarter of grade three pupils in South Africa cannot read a single word, despite three years of formal schooling. The latest findings show that 15% of grade three learners scored zero in ...

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 ...

A Facebook user revealed why he no longer identifies as Afrikaner, sparking a massive debate on DNA, language, and South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The footballer and author are supporting a nationwide campaign, Go All In, which aims to reverse the ‘worrying decline’ in reading for pleasure among children in the UK Leah Williamson, Michael ...

A version of this story appeared in the weekly Newsletter from the Editor. Sign up here. It was just after 5:00 a.m., and I was wide-awake in a hotel in Rome. Jet lag, certainly. I grabbed my phone, ...

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 ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...