As 29 May approaches, we must find a way to separate the wheat from the chaff
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“I think literacy and critical literacy is a valuable shield against exploitation. The ability to read for meaning is crucial. And in South Africa, for more than a decade, many of our 10-year-olds couldn’t read for meaning in any language. One of the tools that nations use to spin a narrative is “soft power” — in other words, persuasion through diplomacy or cultural exchange — rather than coercion or “hard power” through military enforcement.
“The stress we feel cries out for a villain to blame and for clear moral lines rather than the messy shades of grey that often represent reality. Take anyone with time to spare and they are likely to watch way too much ‘burned person hates the world and wants to destroy it’ content,” he writes.
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