by Team Fundza | Oct 19, 2021 | Our News
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...
by Team Fundza | Jun 14, 2021 | Our News
From March to May 2021, FunDza ran a course competition – That Majola Magic – in partnership with the Momentum Metropolitan Foundation. This was a sequel to the highly successful ‘Moving up with the Majolas’ competition. Through the course competition, participants...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 12, 2021 | Our News
This year we launched an exciting new project to develop our young writers: the FunDza Fellowship – a 10-month writing programme for 15 of our aspiring writers, conducted virtually. We selected young people, who had previously submitted Fanz writing or entered FunDza...
by Nadeema Musthan | Apr 20, 2021 | Our News
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...
by Team Fundza | Mar 15, 2021 | Our News
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...
by Nadeema Musthan | Feb 1, 2021 | Our News
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...
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 23, 2020 | Our News
At FunDza, we have a team of young staff members who help with editing and writing. They generate many of our ‘Did you know’ blogs, as well as our Inspiring Tomorrow interviews with extraordinary South Africans. Collectively they have produced more than 60 articles...
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 Nadeema Musthan | Sep 17, 2020 | Our News
This year the South African Book Fair went virtual – a first, along with the many firsts, in our ‘new normal’. FunDza was invited to be part of the Children’s Programme in the virtual ‘Magic Tent’ which offered a range of exciting activities, from workshops to...
