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No. 26, June 2003
Promotion of Reading in South Africa
Contents

Articles

Reading in South Africa: an overview of policy, programmes and campaigns since 1994    

1

Ivor Baatjes

Abstract

Making reading a shared pleasure and a valuable skill: the Family Literacy Project in the southern Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal

11

Snoeks Desmond

Abstract

Who reads what? Fiction reading young people in South Africa

20

Myrna P. Machet

Abstract

As South African as stokvels: social book clubs in Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas of KwaZulu-Natal

29

Jenny Aitchison

Abstract

Challenges to the Siyafunda Literacy Campaign in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal

38

Sandra Land

Abstract

Biblionef SA: bringing books to the bookless  

43

Jean Williams

Promoting reading in high schools: two practical approaches

48

Jenny Gerrard and Peta Ward with Dot Proctor

Abstract

The Community Publishing Project: assisting writers to self-publish

53

Colleen Higgs

Abstract

Book review

South Africa in English-language children's literature, 1814-1912 Elwyn Jenkins  

57

Paula Krynauw

Shaken AND stirred: opinion column

Teaching teachers to read: aliteracy is as acute in Africa as illiteracy  

59

Dennis Bailey

 

 

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