Cape Town, March 10, 2023.- The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, referred to the Literacy Campaign developed in Cuba at the beginning of the Revolution, as part of his speech at the Nelson Mandela Youth Dialogue, which brought together young people from more than 20 countries in Africa.
Ramaphosa recalled how “in the early days of the Cuban Revolution, which greatly inspired the post-independence movements in Africa, young people were sent to cities and towns to teach people to read, an act that transformed the country".
The Literacy Campaign was a nationwide process, promoted in 1961 by the Cuban revolutionary government, to reduce illiteracy and facilitate universal access to different levels of education free of charge. The Campaign showed that literacy, as well as education, is an event whose success depends on the massive and unanimous participation of all sectors of the population.