With the September Rotary Theme of of Basic Education and Literacy, it was highly appropriate for Brahm Fleish, an associate professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, to address the club on the poor state of literacy in South African Schools and what is being done to change it. While reading tests show that at the grade 4 level the average standard of literacy is way below the average of first world cou...