Author Profile
More by Nal'ibali…
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 more than a decade.
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.
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
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 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
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 retelling them with the help of popular local performers in South African languages and with modern, relatable and local contexts.
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 them, just as their caregivers taught them when they first arrived on earth.
'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.
'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, reel them in and then, once they are in, there’s no turning back!"
'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 so."























