Most children leave grade one without knowing the alphabet, while 82% of grade 4 children cannot read for meaning. Only the Western Cape and Gauteng are taking steps to address the literacy crisis.

Need some help acing the NSC isiXhosa First Additional Language Paper 1 exam? We've got you covered with these past papers from 2019 as provided by the Department of Basic Education.

African-language learners face huge cognitive and linguistic challenges in their leap from mother-tongue instruction in Grade 3 to English in Grade 4. After three years of exposure to home ...