"Language of My Soul" Documentary on SABC 2 One formidable woman's mission to save her language. A Remarkable Story Read More...

Puku Demonstrates Pukupedia The Puku Children’s Literature Foundation was hosted by UNISA Library during the National book Week and in observance of International Literacy day to facilitate a demonstration of the Pukupedia to stake-holders. The stakeholders included librarians, Ilifa indigenous language ...

At an august ceremony held during the proceedings of the Publishers Association of South Africa Annual General Meeting, Elinor Sisulu, Founder and Executive Director of the Puku Children’s Literature Foundation was awarded the Nick Perren Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024. The Award consists of an ornate, engraved trophy, a notarized certificate ...

Launching Puku’s Registry of Multilingual Children’s Books by Independent & Self-Publishers Register as an independent or self-publisher here

An exciting new initiative by Puku and the ValueEd learning platform will train teachers on digital skills which are essential to navigating the plethora of internet-enabled technologies that will be native to future learners. The partnership between Puku and ValueEd is set to upskill a cohort of teachers by providing them access to the latest tren...

The late Professor Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane was many things, including a senior advisor to former presidents Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and JacobZuma. President Mandela described him as a “visionary leader and one of South Africa’s greatest intellectuals.” On the literary front, multilingual African literature was his field and pa...

By Lorato Trok If you ask black South Africans who grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and possibly the 90s what their favourite South African children’s book is when they were growing up, they will probably tell you about their favourite African folktale that their mothers or grandmothers used to tell them. We simply did not have children’s books tha...

Elinor Sisulu, founder and Executive Director of Puku was pleased to receive the South African Literary Awards Chairperson’s Achievement Certificate and Trophy for outstanding work in the Children’s Literature space over many years as an author, advocate for indigenous languages and as an activist for inclusion in children’s acces...

Puku Onix Project teammate, Melvin Kaabwe, had the honor of visiting the Mohammed Muhammad bin Rashid library in Dubai On the eve of the Sharjah International book national book fair and was inspired to find this gentle fountain of knowledge rising out like a sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of Dubai.The library is an architectural and technolo...

By Fred Khumalo for the City Press; June 2023 Each of the approximately 20 000 runners participating in this year’s Comrades Marathon has a dream: to simply be seen on TV at the starting point or finish line, to improve on their previous record, or to beat the record of the previous winner. For Mpho Ngoepe, who has completed nine Comrades in the pa...