{"id":50492,"date":"2021-12-09T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/foundation-promotes-culture-of-reading-20211207\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:59:48","slug":"foundation-promotes-culture-of-reading-20211207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/foundation-promotes-culture-of-reading-20211207\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation promotes culture of reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of the 16 Days of Activism programme, Princess Stella Sigcau II, who is the founder of the <span>Khuthaza Ukufunda<\/span> Initiative, which promotes and encourages the culture of reading at schools, is promoting education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative created awareness of gender-based violence at schools and handed over donations of sanitary towels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sigcau, they requested the Imbumba Foundation to participate through its caring for girls programme, to donate sanitary towels to the schools in the Mpondo Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe schools who benefited from this initiative were Mt Zion Senior Secondary School, Mncwathi Senior Secondary School in Mbizana, Mbotyi Junior Secondary School, Dumezweni Senior Secondary School and Mfazwe Senior Secondary School in Ntabankulu.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_77b19104\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Read\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/649\/ad9c5cb1abf14ef984a29a82c86b0870.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/b4350e6e5337468d8cbe91aa79b03130.jpg\" title=\"Teachers from Dumezweni Senior Secondary School in Ntabankulu meet the founder of Khuthaza Ukufunda Initiative, Princess Stella Sigcau II.              \"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Teachers from Dumezweni Senior 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