An encounter with hungry hyenas, rats and bats for dinner and the endless natural beauty. These are some of the adventures that adventurer and motivational speaker,  Riaan Manser, experienced during his two-year-long bicycle tour through Africa.   Manser managed to cover 35,500km and travelled through 34 countries.  Some of the countries were more hospitable than others, while some were […]

A group of learners from Matjiesfontein primary school and madrassas of three Cape mosques were spoiled with a heritage excursion to Table Mountain. The learners, in total 31, who were accompanied by their teachers, were the guests of honour at the Stigting vir Bemagtiging deur Afrikaans’s  (SBA) third animation launch. Fatima, is one of SBA’s children’s books that

Proliferation Through Mathematics A total of 94 teachers from the Eastern Cape attended the Stigting vir Bemagtiging deur Afrikaans’s (SBA) Woeker met Wiskunde mathematical conference which was held on 27 August. The SBA is a non-profit organization that is committed to developing literacy through Afrikaans as well as simultaneously bringing about respect for Afrikaans. Mathematics

The SBA itinerant workshops in Kirkwood “Presenting Chemical Science as a subject can sometimes be difficult but through this workshop, I’ve learned how to make it easy and keep it interesting for the learners.” That’s what Shirley Cook, a teacher at La Trobe Primary School in Enon, said after the Stigting deur Bemagtiging deur Afrikaans

Manual Skill Project The Stigting vir Bemagtiging deur Afrikaans (Foundation for Empowerment through Afrikaans), SBA has made an addition to its projects this year. The Manual Skill Project is a practical workshop where about 185 Northern Cape learners was taught to build a bird feeder by themselves and how to market it. The workshop exposed

The SBA’s combined Afrikaans and isiXhosa comic book adventure, Robbie the Rough Rat / Umabuzi Ogadalala, can finally be seen in an animated film. This true South African story, which deals with the unique adventures of a rat from Mitchells Plain, was launched on 28 April, on the second day of the Suidoosterfees. A group of

Parents often have a hard time keeping their teens away from their cell phones and social media, but this time both were harnessed for a good cause.The SBA’s Facebook page flourished with beautiful photos of nature and funny depictions of idioms.Numerous learners from as far as Upington, North West, and Gqeberha entered the SBA’s photo

Thanks to the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), the SBA will be able to expand its Zoë reading project to more than 70 schools in the Northern Cape this year. The reading project aims to cultivate a love of reading among learners in the foundation phase. The schools select a suitable person from the community who is

The SBA boasts its second four-language idiom book. We all walk on the same earth, an idiom book that deals with the earth, contains 20 idioms that are summarized in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and Setswana in one book. In addition to the translations of the idioms, there is also a detailed explanation for each of the