Inside the joyful crusade to save SA’s lost generation of readers
Daily Maverick | 03.03.2026 17:32
In apartheid-era South Africa’s Northern Cape, a small-town girl named Lorato Trok discovered the magic of literacy not in libraries, which her community of Kuruman lacked entirely, but in the mesmerising glow of bedtime tales. She wouldn’t glimpse her first school library until age 18, in high school.
