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

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

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

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 reading for enjoyment campaign.

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

As part of Literacy and Heritage Month, Standard Bank and Nal'ibali will be bringing three time-honoured stories to South African children by retelling them with the help of popular local performers in South African languages and with modern, relatable and local contexts.

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 them, just as their caregivers taught them when they first arrived on earth.

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

"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, reel them in and then, once they are in, there’s no turning back!"

"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 so."