by Asithandile Tyulu | Mar 31, 2022 | Our News
Tennille Rode, Operations Manager, and Amanda van Niekerk, Non-fiction Editor, are the FunDza team’s newest additions. Let’s find out a little more about them. Tennille: What previous experience has best prepared you for your role as Operations Manager here at FunDza?...
by Nadeema Musthan | Oct 27, 2021 | Our News |
The board and staff of the FunDza Literacy Trust are delighted to welcome Lea-Anne Moses to the team as the incoming director. Lea-Anne officially joins FunDza on 1 December 2021. Lea-Anne brings a wealth of experience in the nonprofit and corporate CSI space to the...
by Nadeema Musthan | Jul 29, 2021 | Our News
You’ve heard right… FunDza is looking for a new director! It’s been more than 10 years for me at the helm of this fantastic organisation – and both FunDza and I are ready – ready for a change. A change of pace, for me; and a change of leadership and...
by Team Fundza | Jun 30, 2020 | Our News |
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...
by Nadeema Musthan | May 27, 2020 | Our News
The FunDza team are all missing each other so much. We were last together in the office over two months ago now. We miss the chatting, the jokes, the support, the sharing. We have grown strong together as a team over the last year, working through hard times,...
by Team Fundza | Jan 29, 2020 | Our News
What is excellence? What does innovation look like? And, how can we build these two concepts into the fabric of our organisation? These were questions that the FunDza team have been thinking about since the start of the year. And, we were lucky enough to have three...
by Team Fundza | Jan 25, 2020 | Our News
When Busiswa applied for the internship with FunDza we were impressed by her creative cover letter that told us about her love of gazing at the stars. In her words… My name is Busiswa Mahonono. I would like to think that I was given the name because I was truly...
by Team Fundza | Jan 24, 2020 | Our News
Towards the end of last year we received the sad news that Zimkhitha wanted to stretch her wings and do other exciting work and things. It was a blow – as Zimkhitha felt like an irreplaceable institution at FunDza… so we created a new position instead: one...
by Team Fundza | Jan 24, 2020 | Our News
Among the new hires was a not so new face: Tamica Mopp! Tamica had worked at FunDza previously but had left due to personal and study commitments. She’s back with loads of ideas, and so much passion too. Previously she’d been running the children’s...
by Team Fundza | Oct 4, 2019 | Our News
Imagine the shock of getting a call at work. I should probably point out that no one would ever call me at work if they know me personally. The caller was a woman from Communiversity in Vrygrond, Cape Town. Communiversity is an organisation aimed at helping young...
