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Library helps create educated readership
The Citizen
|August 12, 2025
Hoping to see pupils visiting this beautiful historic building in the CBD, writes Denise Powell.
Signs of hope from Gauteng government: along with some coverage of the refurbished Johannesburg library, the attractive quarter-page advertisement in Thursday's The Citizen for applications from NPOs for funding for reading programmes gives hope to your readers.
I'm certain I speak for all of us in saying that the details described in the advert and the news coverage paints a rainbow of hope that we need so badly.
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