by Team Fundza | Jan 29, 2021 | Our News
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...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 24, 2020 | Our News
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...
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 Team Fundza | Oct 10, 2020 | Our News
The Fantastic FunDza Fanz Giveaway Competition ran 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 five...
by Team Fundza | Sep 10, 2020 | Our News
During the month of August, FunDza ran a poetry competition called, “Unusual Love”. Participants were asked to write a poem about a love they felt for an inanimate object, a place, an animal or an experience. The catch? The poem could not be about a person. The...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 20, 2020 | Our News
Last year’s Moving Up with the Majolas competition was so successful that this year we had a re-run! So on 9 April 2020, FunDza relaunched the ‘Moving Up with the Majolas’ course competition, in partnership with the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. Through the...
by Team Fundza | Jun 22, 2020 | Our News
In partnership with the Western Cape Government Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, and Community Chest, and with the support of Assitej South Africa and Harambee, FunDza launched the #Slam4urLife competition at the beginning of May. The aim of the competition...
by Nadeema Musthan | Apr 15, 2020 | Our News
To celebrate Human Rights Day on 21 March, FunDza hosted a special writing challenge through its WhatsApp Business account. There were 90 entrants and ten lucky winners who each got a little bit of airtime to make their lockdown a little more data-fun! For the Human...
by Team Fundza | Mar 23, 2020 | Our News
It was Human Rights Day on Saturday 21 March, and what better way for young people to commemorate it in these difficult times when they are stuck at home than to enter an online writing challenge launched by FunDza Literacy Trust? FunDza’s WhatsApp channel...
by Team Fundza | Mar 6, 2020 | Our News
During the summer holidays, FunDza ran an essay writing competition called ‘My AHA! Moment’. Participants were asked to write about an incident that marked a shift in perspective, thinking or learning. The competition closed on 6 February and the FunDza team has been...
