by Nadeema Musthan | Mar 22, 2013 | Our News
Award-winning author of Young Blood Sifiso Mzobe has shown his support for FunDza’s initiative of getting young South Africans reading by writing a hard-hitting short story for FunDza’s mobi network. Along with stories and novels by some of South Africa’s best...
by Nadeema Musthan | Mar 4, 2013 | Our News
FunDza is excited to announce that New Africa Books will be showcasing its popular Siyagruva series titles on FunDza’s Mxit platform. The books will be released as BIG READS so readers can pay very small amounts of moola to access the content. Today sees the...
by Nadeema Musthan | Feb 27, 2013 | Our News
We celebrate World Read Aloud Day to advocate children’s right to read and write. Litworld.org says “By raising our voices together on this day we show the world’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share...
by Nadeema Musthan | Feb 7, 2013 | Our News |
The Chaeli Campaign presents: DisABILITY Dreams, a short story writing competition that encourages writers to create stories that challenge current understandings, and misunderstandings, of disability in South Africa. The Chaeli Campaign has launched its 2013 short...
by Nadeema Musthan | Dec 14, 2012 | Our News
‘JANE RAPHAELY unedited’ is FunDza’s latest ‘Big Read’. FunDza is delighted to host Jane Raphaely’s memoir – JANE RAPHAELY unedited – on the FunDza Mxit. Read all about the woman who turned down $24 000 in a quiz show with a cowboy to...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 28, 2012 | Our News |
The FunDza Literacy Trust (a not-for-profit organization) is hosting our first ever National Mobi-read-a-thon running from 2-21 December. Young people all over South Africa will be encouraged to “Read to Win”. They will sign up to Mxit on their cellphones; join our...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 23, 2012 | Our News |
On Friday 23rd November, FunDza will be publishing another FIRST on the FunDza mobi site. It is our FIRST commissioned short story written isiXhosa and then translated into English. It is our FIRST story by Cebisa Zono, an exceptional young writer from the Eastern...
by Nadeema Musthan | Nov 22, 2012 | Our News
FunDza is delighted to announce that the Indigo Trust is our newest funder and partner. The Indigo Trust funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries. We will use this generous funding to improve the technology supporting...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 4, 2012 | Our News
The FunDza Literacy Trust is very grateful to law publisher Siber Ink for supporting its Popularising reading programme so that some Eastern Cape schools – such as Malikhanye Senior Secondary School, Barkly East – can receive sets of the Harmony High series of books....
by Nadeema Musthan | Aug 24, 2012 | Our News
We would like to say a huge thanks to the USA based – Townsend Press for permission to publish one of their books via Mxit. “Letters my mother never read” is a heart-rending autobiography of a young girl who is orphaned, and then faces...
