S1E252 min·Conversations·08-06-2026

Words of Waking

Host: Tshego Khatri · Guest: Roy Michael Hewett

Roy Michael Hewett joins Tshego to talk about fifty years in South African education, literacy as a form of seeing, and what it means to learn isiXhosa at seventy.

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Words That Stayed

“A child who cannot read is not less — they are simply waiting for someone to open the right door.”

“isiXhosa taught me humility. Every lesson reminded me I was a beginner again.”

“The best teachers I ever met were students.”

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