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Mzansi Academy Kids
Ages 2–10 · South Africa

Ad-free learning for South African children

Your child will greet their grandmother in Setswana, count in it, and solve a coding puzzle by spotting the pattern themselves.

15 days free, then R60 a month. No card required to start. Cancel any time in Settings — access runs to the end of the period you paid for.

Available now

Setswana

Full vocabulary, cultural context and review scheduling. isiZulu and Sepedi next, then eight more South African languages and SASL.

Cost
R60 / month
Ages
2 to 10
A session
5–25 minutes
Ads
None, ever

Up to 10 children on one family account.

Not translated. Written here.

Most children’s apps localise a Western curriculum. This one starts from a South African one. Four things your child meets in their first weeks:

Setswana · greetings

Dumela · Ke a leboga

Children greet elders first as a sign of respect — so the lesson teaches the greeting and who it is owed to, together.

Setswana · counting

Nngwe, pedi, tharo

Taught the way they are actually taught: through counting games and songs around the fire, not a number line.

Health · nutrition

Pap, morogo, umngqusho

Every nutrition lesson is built on food a child here actually eats — samp and beans, amasi — not a translated meal plan.

Culture · botho

The kgotla

Where the community meets and everyone who wants to speak may speak — the oldest grandmother, the young farmer, a visiting child.

Setswana is available today. isiZulu and Sepedi are next, then Xitsonga, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, siSwati, isiNdebele and South African Sign Language.

What this product commits to

No ads. Ever.

No ad SDKs, not now, not later. There is no third-party script on this site either — check.

We follow POPIA

We never sell behavioural data. No location data, no long-term audio storage. Delete everything on request.

What we keep

No Western defaults

Vernacular languages, local foods, and activities grounded in how families here actually live.

One app, six ways to grow

Every module exists to teach, coach, or report — never just to fill time. Inspired by Khan Academy Kids’ joyful, learning-through-play philosophy, adapted for South African languages, cultures, and family structures.

Vernacular Language

Setswana lessons today, with isiZulu, Sepedi, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, siSwati, isiNdebele and SASL on the roadmap — vocabulary, cultural context, and spaced-repetition review so it actually sticks.

Coding Basics

Block logic, patterns, sequences and conditions — real computational thinking, adapted to your child's grade level, not just games dressed up as "coding".

Kids & Family Activities

Structured, equipment-free activities for movement, reading, phonetics and motor skills — plus activities designed for a parent and child to do together.

Health & Habits

Hygiene, nutrition rooted in real South African food, and simple physical prompts between lessons — all positively framed, never guilt-driven.

AI Learning Coach

A guided, Socratic AI coach your child can talk to directly — it never just hands over the answer, it teaches the way a good tutor would.

Parent Reports

Weekly and monthly reports that go beyond a chart: specific, honest, AI-generated suggestions for what to try next with your child.

It asks. It doesn’t answer.

When your child is stuck, the coach is built to withhold the answer and hand back a smaller question. If the first hint doesn’t land, the next one is bigger — it only gives the answer outright once your child has genuinely tried.

It never says “wrong”. Both your child’s message and the coach’s reply pass a safety check before anything is shown.

How the coach works →

Example · pattern exercise, age 6

Child

I don't get it. Red, blue, red, blue, red… what comes next?

Coach

Good question! Say the colours out loud in order. What do you notice about how they take turns?

Child

it goes red then blue then red then blue

Coach

Yes — you just found the rule yourself. So if the last one you said was red, whose turn is it now?

Child

blue!

Coach

Ke a leboga! That's exactly right, and you worked it out on your own. 🎉

An example, not a recording. Replies are generated live against your child’s grade level and recent work, so no two conversations run the same way.

1

Create your family

Register, add your child's profile and grade level, and take a quick placement quiz.

2

Learn every day

Bite-sized daily sessions across language, coding, activities and health — paced to your child.

3

See real progress

Weekly reports with specific, AI-generated suggestions — not just a chart of numbers.

A report that tells you what to do next

Every week and every month, you get specific, honest, AI-generated suggestions for what to try next with your child — written from their actual week, not a template.

Honest includes the parts that didn’t go well. A report that only ever congratulates you is a chart with adjectives on it.

See what a report covers →

Example · this week’s suggestion

“Lerato completed 4 language lessons this week averaging 82%, but no coding sessions — try one short Coding Basics session with her on Saturday morning to keep both moving. 💻”

  • Names a real number from the week, not “great progress”.
  • Says what is missing, not only what went well.
  • Ends in one thing you can actually do, on a specific day.

One subscription. Up to ten children.

Add a second child and the price does not move. Add a tenth and it still does not — every child gets their own profile, their own grade level, their own progress and their own report.

children on one account
10children on one account
per child, per month, at ten
R6per child, per month, at ten
extra for the second child — and the tenth
R0extra for the second child — and the tenth

R60 a month, for up to 10 children

Or R600 a year. Every module, no upsells. Start with 15 days free, no card required — and cancel any time in Settings, with access running to the end of the period you paid for.