by Mignon | Dec 22, 2021 | Our News
Evelyn Buda of Buda Foundation Project in Limpopo is the winner of FunDza’s Business Plan competition, walking away with a R5000 cash prize to invest in her business. From September to November, FunDza ran the Own Your Destiny course on the fundza.mobi site. This...
by Mignon | Dec 15, 2021 | Our News |
FunDza wishes our chairperson, Dr Xolisa Guzula, huge congratulations on being awarded her doctorate in education. We are so proud of the work that she is doing to promote literacy in our country. This degree, we know, is the result of many hours of labour, research,...
by Mignon | Dec 14, 2021 | Our News
On 17 March 2021, FunDza hosted it’s first introductory workshop for 18 young people selected to be the inaugural members of the FunDza Fellowship programme. The plan: to take this group on an exciting writing journey that we hoped would inform, challenge and...
by Mignon | Dec 13, 2021 | Our News
We first started our ‘developing young writers’ programme 10 years ago because our online readers were inspired by FunDza’s stories and wanted to write and get published too. Since the first Fanz pieces were published in May 2011 on fundza.mobi, we...
by Mignon | Oct 27, 2021 | Our News |
The board and staff of the FunDza Literacy Trust are delighted to welcome Lea-Anne Moses to the team as the incoming director. Lea-Anne officially joins FunDza on 1 December 2021. Lea-Anne brings a wealth of experience in the nonprofit and corporate CSI space to the...
by Mignon | Sep 21, 2021 | Our News
We are very excited to announce that for the President’s next Virtual Reading Club the book being discussed is to be found on FunDza’s site. The Virtual Reading Club is run by the National Education Collaboration Trust’s National Reading Coalition, of which...
by Mignon | Sep 14, 2021 | Our News
LITASA – the Literacy Association of South Africa – has always been a great supporter and friend of FunDza, since our first presentation at one of their conferences 10 years ago. Since then their conferences have been a highlight of our annual calendars as...
by Mignon | Jul 29, 2021 | Our News
You’ve heard right… FunDza is looking for a new director! It’s been more than 10 years for me at the helm of this fantastic organisation – and both FunDza and I are ready – ready for a change. A change of pace, for me; and a change of leadership and...
by Mignon | Jul 27, 2021 | Our News |
FunDza is delighted to have been selected as one of three nonprofits pitching at this year’s MTN Donor’s Den as part of the Trialogue Business in Society Conference. This year’s theme focused on using technology for education. With a top prize of R25,000, we decided...
by Mignon | Jul 27, 2021 | Our News |
FunDza is proud to announce that Zilungile Zimela – Marketing and PR Manager for FunDza – has been selected as one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans for 2021. She was awarded under the Education category. For the past 15 years, Mail & Guardian...
