Bayafunda is the second mother tongue magazine and the sister magazine of Bana Balang. Bayafunda is a unique magazine to stimulate, entertain, educate and inform our isiXhoza youth in their mother tongue. The Bayafunda is distributed to schools free of charge, in the rural- and urban areas. The youth is encouraged to read trough entertaining and educational content.

Bayafunda recognizes that learners are multi-faceted individuals with a variety of interests. In response the publication offers interesting, actual and entertaining information to the widest variety of taste, as well as sms competitions, etc.


We realize the importance of establishing and nurturing a love for reading within our youth.


Bayafunda is ideally suited as the delivery vehicle of choice for information and educational aids to learners and educators. 

From the low pass rate in schools as the main symptom, one of the solutions for the problem is to conduct education in the mother tongue of the learner.

Learners and parents, especially in rural areas, are uninformed about many issues. Such issues include health, business, political, social, moral and many more issues.

A programme was conducted by NWU at Potchefstroom Central Primary where a control group of learners were taught in their mother tongue. There was radical increase in their exam results.

Get information out to the rural areas. Official figures show that about 4.7 million adults in South Africa are illiterate and about 4.9 million adults are functional illiterate who left school before Grade 7.

Bayafunda was implemented to supply educational material to learners in their mother tongue. It is also used in classrooms as additional learning material. The nature of the distibution of the magazines is such that it reaches the most rural areas and conveys information, not only to the learners, but also their parents.

Learners need to perform better in their studies to be better prepared for the job market and to live up to their best potential. The better our learners are equipped the better they ccan look after themselves and their families. It will create more and bettr job opportunities. 

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