STORY SPARKERS: Inside the joyful crusade to save SA’s lost generation of readers

2026-03-03 - 08:43

With shocking statistics revealing a deep-rooted reading emergency in South African schools, one organisation is abandoning rote phonics drills for something more powerful: joy. Under Lorato Trok’s leadership, Nal’ibali is using grassroots reading clubs, story sparkers and home-language folktales to raise a new generation of literate children.