Nomkelemane Langa, a humble rural boy from Nkandla, discovered his talent as a praise poet in the Isulabasha Dancing Pencils Writing Club in Nkandla 10 years ago. He is now praise ... Continue Reading →
By Felicity Keats
When Teilharde Fregona was three years old she sat with her mother, Charl Fregona, and me as Charl helped me with originating our first child written book. These ... Continue Reading →
These are a few of the Grade Three children in five different districts of the Free State, writing their books that will be launched on Friday 21 February 2013. No one helped them. ... Continue Reading →
Dancing Pencils won a tender put out by the Free State Department of Education to train 10 grade 3 children in each of five districts in the Free State so that they were able to write ... Continue Reading →
It was a night full of love, laughter and wishes for Felicity Keats as she celebrated her 80th Birthday in style at the SABC Blue Room. Family, friends and colleagues gathered for ... Continue Reading →
In the film “Free Willy “ it was the children that saved the whale, not the adults.
In exactly the same way, it is the children of South Africa that can save the country and its ... Continue Reading →
The story highlights changes in a child's life from having the opportunity to learn to write stories and to read. The child starts out as an orphan in a squatter camp, and finishes up as a bright little girl with her own book launch and published story. It aims at getting funding in our NPO to enable the NPO to help with literacy by training children to write stories, publishing them and then giving books to disadvantaged children and so encouraging reading of child written books. This helps with literacy as children will read what children write.. The little orphan is the daughter of Bonga Zondo, who was the cameraman and editor. The teacher is Bonga's wife. The script was written by Felicity Keats who is also a right brain trainer and a niche publisher. the voice is Detlev Diegel, also a colleague.
Scenes at some of the Dancing Pencil book launches
Grade 3 Learners in five districts in the Free State, South Africa write books in five different home languages.