Monday, 21 September 2026

A reflective heritage segment centred on literacy, family memory and the enduring power of books to connect South African schools and communities.

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A storyteller said her great-grandmother collected anything with words on it and kept the material in a suitcase, inspiring a lifelong commitment to literacy.
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Twenty-five years ago, she started a literacy campaign in her great-grandmother’s honour, using books to carry that legacy into schools.
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Her school visits present books as gifts from the past to new readers, framing literacy as a continuing family and community inheritance.