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Hundreds of participants including inmates, learners and community book clubs compete annually

South Africa’s biggest book reading competition is taking place in George, Western Cape, for the 14th year.

The Funda Mzantsi Championship is hosted by the Department of Correctional Services in collaboration with the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture through the National Library of South Africa and George Municipality. The competition cultivates a love for reading. .Inmates Michelle Nadasen from the Westville Correctional Centre in KZN and Muzi Nhangulela from the Klerksdorp Correction Centre in the North West are among the participants.

“This year the competition is more tough, there’s more improvement. It’s helped even the prisons because you can teach others by coming on this trip,” says Nadasen. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

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