Meet the 2021 Fantastic FunDza Fanz winners!

Meet the 2021 Fantastic FunDza Fanz winners!

The Fantastic FunDza Fanz Giveaway Competition ran again for the month of September and enabled FunDza to celebrate its fantastic BIG FunDza readers! Each day we collected the details of the top 50 logged-in readers. There were then four rounds of random draws and ten...
At FunDza, Content is Queen

At FunDza, Content is Queen

By Marché Arends, Deputy Content Manager Much of what we do at FunDza is content creation. Through our weekly blogs like Mindspace, Did You Know and Inspiring Tomorrow we hope to inform, inspire and entertain our readers. Written and researched by our internal team of...
My Father Essay Writing Winners Announced

My Father Essay Writing Winners Announced

What does the word ‘father’ mean to you? That’s what we asked young writers across the country for our latest essay competition, run in conjunction with Heartlines’ ‘Fathers Matter’ campaign. We received over 1,475 entries for the three categories of Senior (ages...
FunDza – A Literary Melting Pot

FunDza – A Literary Melting Pot

The following piece is written by one of our readers and writers, Kingsley Khobotlo. Kingsley was first a ‘Fanz’ writer who we then invited onto a writing course where he wrote a professional story for FunDza, which you can read here. You can read more of his...
Getting to know our Fanz writers

Getting to know our Fanz writers

A major aim of FunDza is to develop new writing talent amongst young people in South Africa and to provide a space for young people to share their stories, and grow in confidence as writers. Young Fanz writers are invited to send in their work for publication on the...
FunDza celebrates our many African languages

FunDza celebrates our many African languages

FunDza is celebrating the rich diversity of languages in our country with a new ‘African Language Banner’ on its homepage and you can find it here. This is a space dedicated to publishing and promoting stories, essays, blogs, plays and poetry in African languages and...
Last leg of an on-going journey

Last leg of an on-going journey

Alonzo Naude and Zilungile Zimela are nearing the end of their year-long journey as Fellows in the DGMT Fellowship for Organisational Innovation. The past pandemic-filled year has demanded innovative and agile thinking, so this Fellowship couldn’t have come at a...