by Nadeema Musthan | 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 Nadeema Musthan | Jun 22, 2021 | Our News
Four days after FunDza had been officially incorporated as a nonprofit trust, it made its first book donation: 10 copies of the book Broken Promises to Ikamva Youth in Masiphumelele. There was a hand-over event at the Masiphumelele library with dancing, ululating and...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 28, 2020 | Our News
FunDza believes in the power of story in engaging readers with issues that affect them and their communities. It also believes that knowledge is power. The combination of fictional stories with informative resource material that unpacks the issues in the stories is a...
by Nadeema Musthan | Aug 4, 2020 | Our News
We know that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected us all. So we are changing our book policy for the next few months and inviting all interested organisations, who are currently working directly with young people, to apply for a FunDza book donation. The books can be...
by Team Fundza | Feb 5, 2020 | Our News |
Since inception more than 3,500 aspirant amateur writers have had their writing work published in the Fanz section of fundza.mobi. One of these is Petronela Kaunda – writing under the pseudonym Petronela Six Shisaku – who has come to South Africa from Malawi and...
by Team Fundza | 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 Nadeema Musthan | 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 Nadeema Musthan | Feb 26, 2019 | Our News
At FunDza we are very excited about our new ‘funzine’ for reading clubs – a magazine-book publication full of poems, stories, articles and plays that have been enjoyed on the Fundza mobi site. It is different from our other anthologies, not only in size, but also in...
by Team Fundza | Jul 27, 2018 | Our News
FunDza works with a network of beneficiary groups – called the FunDza Family – around the country that receive books and reading resources to support a culture of reading and writing in their communities. We caught up for five minutes to ask five questions...
by Team Fundza | Jul 9, 2018 | Our News
On the 30 June 2018, Nandi from FunDza Literacy Trust visited the KwaFaku book jam in Crossroads, Cape Town. The Book Jam was organised to encourage children and young adults to read for enjoyment and write for expression. It is through such initiatives with...
