ABSTRACT

Catherine Kell (1996) relates the literacy practices of an ‘illiterate’ South African community leader, Winnie Tsotso. Tsotso is a middle-aged woman living in a squatter community. As a child she was needed to care for her grandmother and, consequently, never attended school. Her first language is Xhosa. She is fluent in Afrikaans and English, and also speaks Sotho, Zulu and Tswana.