#RacingForOurLanguages

Support us, by supporting Professor Mpho Ngoepe in the Comrades Marathon

Professor Mpho Ngoepe, UNISA’s Director of the School of Arts, is dedicating his 2024 Comrades Marathon run to fundraising for children’s literature in indigenous languages.

 

 

 

 

 

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About Puku

Puku is a reading promotion and book curation organisation that aims to ensure that all children have access to quality, culturally relevant literature in all South African languages. One of Puku’s primary vehicles for promoting this is the creation of an engaging and innovative digital encyclopedia that houses and reviews literature and bodies of work for what will be South Africa’s first comprehensive database of children’s literature (Pukupedia) which promotes the buying and reading of books that affirm the African child