Celebrating our first FunDza Fellows

Celebrating our first FunDza Fellows

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...
Growing poets through our Fellowship

Growing poets through our Fellowship

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...
Last leg of an on-going journey

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...
The journey to organisational innovation

The journey to organisational innovation

FunDza believes that the ability to read and write transforms lives. South Africa is a book-poor and reading-poor country – we exist to change that. To do this we provide teens and young adults with access to high-interest exciting reading content that speaks to their...