How contracts drawn up as comic strips are being put to use in South Africa
Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
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There’s a new way of measuring poverty in South Africa: Here’s how it works
A newish method called the multidimensional poverty index is revealing new insights into the South Africa’s poverty.
During lockdown, South African students wrote a book about ‘a world gone mad’
The student authors wrote about their lives during lockdown, and their stories were published in a book that now informs their university’s syllabus.
Why children learn English more easily with the help of their home language – Namibian study
Home languages can help children learn English and become stronger readers.
Learning to read in another language is tough: how Namibian teachers can help kids
The teachers did not often adapt their practices to suit their specific cultural and linguistic contexts.
Bilingual schooling can boost literacy ‑ but in Côte d’Ivoire it’s not as clear cut
Investing in bilingual education can reduce grade repetition, drop-out rates, and improve literacy outcomes.
Hardly any South Africans are organ donors. What can be done to change this
One tissue donation can save or improve the lives of more than 65 people. So it’s important to unpack and address the reasons South Africans are reluctant to register as tissue and organ donors.
Media literacy education in South Africa can help combat fake news ‑ here’s what’s needed
South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
Experiences of African people across the world brought to life through film
Cape Town’s screening of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival provides a platform for debate, and shows how documentary films clarify and complicate the answers.
More African children are going to school – but is quantity a distraction from quality?
If Malawian children do not learn basic skills like reading, will this harm them in the long term? Recent evidence suggests the answer is yes – at least in terms of their health.