More than 23 million Bibles are needed in South Africa, according to recent research conducted by the research company Ipsos. Some 44% of South African Christian households indicated that they did not need additional Bibles, whilst 46,7% still need between one and three Bibles for members of their household.
It is a cold Free State morning and a few hundred people are seated inside the Multi Purpose Hall in Phuthaditjhaba.
The audience is made up of teachers, parents, representatives of the Education Department, ministers, community leaders and Bible Society staff.
Then, of course, there are the VIP's that no one can miss. There are some 300 of them, their faces beaming with excitement in anticipation of receiving two literacy booklets in their language, Sesotho, from the Bible Society here the official launch. They are grade R, 1 and 2 learners from various schools in Phuthaditjhaba
