Don�t read, can�t write

Or it could simply have been a Land Board official explaining that a key letter should have been written a long time ago to a suppliant but somehow wasn’t, probably because no one was capable of writing it – thus setting back that individual’s issue for at least another six months.

My point?  Prior to the diamond years, this country was virtually illiterate and only partly numerate. It spoke and it could communicate even if it didn’t write.