SPONSORED | A brand-new story is published every week FunDzaClub
FunDza aims to get SA teens and young adults hooked on reading.In SA, a publisher is thrilled if it sells 3,000 copies of a book. It is, in our national terms, a best-seller, outdoing most of the other local fiction and non-fiction titles. You would be forgiven for thinking that SA is not a reading nation.
A brand-new story is published every week on FunDza — and readers love them. They recognise the characters and settings, and the storylines are pacy and thought-provoking. “ I completed my matric last year and obtained a bachelor pass. I didn’t look for a school because of being afraid of being infected by the Covid-19 virus, but enrolling for courses atMany of the readers are unemployed, and describe how reading on FunDza gives them something to do when they don’t have much motivation to get up in the morning.
FunDza has allowed Zinhle to access motivational essays which buoy her dreams of studying further. “A lot of children at school don’t like reading,” says Zinhle. “I want to tell children at school that there’s these phone [apps] where you can read novels.” She has read “hundreds of stories” on FunDza, and she has noticed how it has built up her vocabulary and has improved her grades at school.
Precious, from rural Limpopo, completed a healthcare course in Joburg and then returned home just before the pandemic. It was a worrying and uncertain time. Scrolling on social media, she found FunDza and it pushed her to a different mental space.
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