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Meet Lerato and Refiloe
Who're they, you may well ask. Why do I want to meet them? Well, the truth is they don't exist but we've created them to use as personas within FunDza to build profile of our audience and who we are reaching. We were introduced to the concept of personas by Emma...
Loving all that Majola Magic!
FunDza readers first came to know and love the Majola family when they met them in ‘Moving up with the Majolas’ a financial literacy project that FunDza ran at the end of 2019 and again in early 2020 with the support of the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. At the...
10 years, 10 facts, 10 lessons learned!
On 6 April 2021, FunDza turned 10 years old! We're hugely proud of our longevity and the impact that we have had on the lives of young people across our country - and beyond too! A little later in the year we will release an impact report that will document what we've...
All about our courses
On fundza.mobi we always have at least three free courses available. They are not accredited with any institutions, but those who complete the courses do get an electronic certificate. They are based our fabulous FunDza content, covering a range of topics from love...
Goodbye to… Inspiring Tomorrow
On 16 February 2015, we published our first Inspiring Tomorrow feature article. Penned by Ndibulele Sotondoshe - who was a final year journalism student at CPUT at that time, the article featured Thulani Mbenge, a boxer from the Eastern Cape. Ndibulele told the story...
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...
Top Reads
It is always fascinating to see our top reads, particularly as ‘trending reads’ are no longer highlighted on the site, so these items have been found independently by thousands of readers who have voted with their ‘clicks’. Unsurprisingly, love is an overarching...
Meet the winners of our 2021 Annual Reader Survey Competition!
We know we have thousands of thousands of readers, but we also need to know more about them. Every year we ask readers to fill in a survey to collect information to help us get more insight into the lives and concerns of our audience. We make it a competition to...
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...
Activating our writing!
A lot of FunDza’s work is supporting our partners who are also committed to developing literacy with their beneficiaries. So we were happy to respond to Activate’s request to work with them on developing writers and publishing their stories. As Mzwandile Msimang from...
Free online courses for our fanz
FunDza always has three open online courses on offer to our readers. They cover a range of topics - some are theme-related, focusing on topical issues or themes such as bullying, xenophobia, or even romance, whereas others are focused on other areas such as developing...
Taking up the Challenge!
Since March 2020 (the beginning of our financial year) FunDza has run six writing challenges aimed at getting our 'FunDza Fanz' writers to pick up pen and paper and practise their writing skills. The writing challenges have been run on FunDza’s WhatsApp platform,...