by Zilungile Zimela | Apr 8, 2019 | Our News |
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is an annual event that Cape Town has come to embrace since 2000 – initially as part of the North Sea Jazz Festival. Every year at the end of March, or beginning of April, the event unfolds, opening its arms for local jazz...
by Mignon | Mar 8, 2019 | Our News |
We spend a lot of time working with our Fanz writers virtually – emails largely, but sometimes SMSes/WhatsApps or the odd phonecall. Having the opportunity to meet them in person and speak face-to-face becomes a valuable and precious opportunity. FunDza has...
by Dorothy Dyer | Oct 29, 2018 | Our News |
As all writers know, there is nothing quite like holding a book with your work in it. And this is how young learners at three reading clubs in Gauteng are feeling this month. Last year FunDza designed and implemented a pilot writing course, run by three groups in the...
by Zilungile Zimela | Sep 27, 2018 | Our News |
For the past couple of years, FunDza has been invited to join National Book Week and shine a light on literacy and reading. This year five FunDza team members collectively visited five provinces running a total of 10 sessions that reached an estimated 275 people. The...
by Zilungile Zimela | Sep 27, 2018 | Our News |
The South African Innovation Summit brings together innovative trailblazers from across the world with a specific focus on the African continent. The purpose is to allow a space for innovators to meet and exchange ideas. Zilungile Zimela, FunDza’s Marketing and...
by Sonja Kruse | Sep 26, 2018 | Our News |
We once again had the honour of hosting 30 students and four lecturers from False Bay College Khayelitsha and Fish Hoek at this year’s Open Book Festival (OBF) on Friday 7 September 2018. Very big thanks to festival organisers Mervyn Sloman and Frankie Murrey of OBF...
by Sonja Kruse | Aug 27, 2018 | Our News |
We were honoured to once again be invited to run creative writing workshops in schools as part of the Knysna Literary Festival Outreach programme from 30 July to 2 August. We spent time with: Knysna Primary School, Rheenendal Primary School. Knysna Secondary School,...
by Zilungile Zimela | Jul 27, 2018 | Our News |
Cape Town is to have a new provincial museum. While the museum’s programmatic focus is still being developed, it is envisaged that the museum will explore and reflect on the dynamic network of people, processes, natural and man-made features within Cape Town as...
by Zilungile Zimela | Jul 20, 2018 | Our News |
Born in Mvezo, Qunu, in the Eastern Cape – the then former Transkei homelands – 100 years ago was a young man who emerged from an “ordinary” upbringing to becoming the face of our country’s liberation and a beacon of hope to many others across the...
by Zilungile Zimela | Jul 17, 2018 | Our News |
On the 12 July, the FunDza team was on the airwaves on Bush Radio 89.5 FM, to speak at length about the Literacy Fun Walk that will take place in Khayelitsha’s Khulani Library to Luhlaza High School. At the helm of the literacy fun walk is the goal of promoting...
