Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
World Read Aloud Day 2023: Every day should be story day

Nal’ibali, the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, has been providing a free special story for children to celebrate World Read Aloud Day for ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Free children's short stories to celebrate Literacy and Heritage Month

Included in the series titled 'Celebrating Mzansi' is an isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana and Afrikaans short story.

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Want to learn isiZulu? Now's your chance to do so free

Nal'ibali and Duolingo will offer nearly 50-million active monthly language students worldwide the opportunity to learn isiZulu free

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
It's story time — in Tshivenda!

From March 28, Tshivenda-speaking children and their families will be able to enjoy printed stories in their home language for free from the ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
World Read Aloud Day celebrates 10th year of inspiring a culture of reading

The campaign, together with its partners, read aloud to more than 3-million children in 2021

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Unlocking truths in classic fairy tales for SA children

As part of Literacy and Heritage Month, Standard Bank and Nal'ibali will be bringing three time-honoured stories to South African children by ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Rewriting nursery rhymes to eradicate gender-based violence

Babies come into the world ready to learn what it means to be human, and it is the responsibility of the grownups into whose laps they fall to teach ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
'Fiction can save us from ourselves' - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author of 'The History of Man' and 'The Theory of Flight', explains her writing process.

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
'I’m intentional about provoking empathy' - Sue Nyathi

"I believe fiction is a great way of tackling somewhat heavy subjects," says the author of "A Family Affair". "With fiction you can disarm a reader, ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
'I am not alone in questioning history' - Zoë Wicomb

"Women’s stories are only recorded and recognised at their own instigation and by their own activism. It is not in the interest of patriarchy to do ...