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Library helps create educated readership

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August 12, 2025

Hoping to see pupils visiting this beautiful historic building in the CBD, writes Denise Powell.

- 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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