Primary school learners at around 250 schools in SA are reading hot-off-the-press world news in their own newspaper, in language they can understand.
Created by Johannesburg journalist Duncan Guy, The Times I Am Living In is e-mailed to subscribers twice weekly, free of charge.
The SA Press Association (Sapa), where Guy is a reporter, is the media sponsor.
He rewrites stories in simple terms, then runs the "adult" wire copy below so that children can delve into it to seek the answers to quiz questions.
"I have established it over the past year and a half and am now commercialising it," says Guy.
Guy started the project for his son, Owen, a pupil at St James Preparatory School in Belgravia, Johannesburg.
It went up on the notice board at Owen's school, then onto the notice board at his friend's school - and on from there.
Many schools display the printed-out pages of the newspaper on a notice board with a map of the world and coloured ribbons connecting the stories to the countries they relate to.
News pages cover world events, Africa, the environment, business and sport.
At Wynberg Girls' Junior School in Cape Town, stories are announced "on air" over the intercom system and at St Peter's Preparatory School in Johannesburg, birthday boys are told what happened on their day, in years gone by, using information from the Today in History page.
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