Ramaphosa To Open Ecd Leadership Summit

President Cyril Ramaphosa will open the Bana Pele Early Childhood Development ECD Leadership Summit in Johannesburg this morning.

The summit is co-convened by the Department of Basic Education and Business Leadership South Africa.

The aim of the summit is to mobilise a public and private coalition behind the departments 2030 ECD Roadmap for quality, universal access to early learning.

Currently, over 1.3 million children are not enrolled in any form of early childhood development ECD programme, leaving them without the foundational literacy and numeracy skills required to succeed in school.

This has forced them not to take on critical subjects like Mathematics and Science in later years.