If we are to ensure that within the next decade every 10-year- old will be able to read for meaning, we will need to mobilise the entire nation behind a massive reading campaign. Early reading is the basic foundation that determines a child's educational progress through school, through higher education and into the workplace. All foundation and intermediate-phase teachers are to be trained to teach reading in English and other African languages, and we are training and deploying a cohort of experienced coaches to provide high-quality on-site support to our teachers. This forms part of the broader effort to strengthen the basic education system by empowering school- leadership teams, improving the capabilities of teachers and ensuring a more consistent measurement of progress for Grades 3, 6 and 9. We also have to prepare our young people for the jobs of the future. This is why we are introducing subjects like coding and data analytics at a primary school level.