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South Africa’s tech‑driven library and literacy specialist
We develop, publish and supply library and literacy resources in all 11 official languages. We also build our own education technology: kibooks.online, our digital library app, and QBot Spark, our coding and robotics kit.
Building our nation page by page
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How would you like to work with us?
One company, three ways to engage. Choose the one that fits you.
Products and resources
Explore and buy our books, library solutions and learning resources, for government, schools, NPOs, retailers and parents.
- Books in all 11 official languages
- Libraries and Wheelie Bookwagon
- kibooks.online and QBot Spark
Investor support (ESD)
Invest in Qualibooks through Enterprise Development (ED) and Supplier Development (SD), and help us grow our reach.
- Invest in an established business
- Fund development and growth
- Level 2 B-BBEE contributor
CSI and SED
Support educational initiatives for under-resourced schools, children and communities through Corporate Social Investment (CSI) and Socio-Economic Development (SED).
- School and mobile libraries
- Digital access and literacy programmes
- Delivered with Education is our Future, a registered NPO
Who we are
Since 1992 we have helped South African children build a reading habit, in every official language.
We develop and publish our own library and literacy books in all 11 official languages.
More than 7,500 international library titles, including ranges we hold the South African licence for.
Wheelie Bookwagon mobile libraries and ECD Resource Kits, in schools and communities nationwide.
kibooks.online, our digital library app, and QBot Spark, our coding and robotics kit.
What we offer
Books in every child’s language.
Library books
Our own books in all 11 official languages, plus international library ranges from stock.
Written in South Africa
Mobile libraries
Our own registered design: a lockable steel library on wheels, in four models, holding up to 800 books.
A library on wheels
Thousands of ebooks, one tap away.
kibooks.online
Our South African digital library: thousands of ebooks in all 11 languages, on any device, anytime.
The future of libraries, today!
Give every child a strong start.
Early Childhood Development
An approved ECD Resource Kit with everything under-resourced centres need for play-based learning, plus a practitioner’s guide.
Approved by the DBE
Build it. Code it. Control it.
QBot Spark
Our new coding and robotics kit for the CAPS curriculum. Learners build, code and control the robot themselves. Certified by SITA and ICASA, available from early 2027.
Coding and Robotics for Grades 7 to 9
Popular books in our shop
Stories and fact books our readers love, from our online bookstore. Delivered across South Africa.
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Hope for our nation
Every child deserves to read.
Without books, children fall behind in reading, and later in everything else. Together with schools, government and companies, we are changing that, one library at a time.
* PIRLS 2021 reading study
Testimonials
Juan D van der Merwe
General Manager: Maelgwyn South Africa
The partnership between Maelgwyn South Africa and Qualibooks has been an inspiring and impactful collaboration. This contribution is an investment in the future of these young minds.
Lisa Carne
Procurement: City Property Administration
Who would’ve thought that access to quality books would be as easy as 1,2,3? The fact that no data is required to access quality books and that it’s available in all official languages, makes this service so much more accessible to the bigger community.
Justin Reeves
Group CEO: CFS Group
Niel, Chris and the kibooks team have made it a pleasure to support this invaluable cause. We’ve been a supporter since early 2022, and we look forward to growing our support and reaching more children with kibooks.
Altie van Schalkwyk
Head of Academics: ADvTECH Schools
Kibooks is a great concept for our new schools. Our teachers love reading to their children in the class, but our parents are even more impressed with the platform. We got more than what we bargained for!
Lynie Nash
(Deputy Principal) Harvest High School, KZN
I received exceptional service and help from the kibooks.online team and within two days we were able to roll out the new digital library for our students. I cannot recommend Kibooks highly enough!
Muallim Akhtar Ali
CEO, Auckland Park Academy of Excellence (APAX)
Learners enjoy choice and the variety of high-quality content across all genres that is easily accessible keeps them interested and engaged. Thank you Kibooks.
Delia Maritz
Foundation Phase Head, Curro Thatchfield
We are so happy we crossed paths with kibooks. It brought back the excitement for reading to our learners. It also complements the physical library at school, now they have the best of both worlds.
Brett Sliedrecht
Head: Senior Primary, St. Charles College
Being able to give our boys simultaneous access to English, Afrikaans and isiZulu books is valuable.
Monique van Heerden
Jhb, West Rand, Northcliff, Edublox
Using Kibooks as a special treat now and then for students to apply their newly acquired reading skills is fun and exciting.
Myrtle van Schalkwyk
Midstream Ridge Primary
Just amazing, the kids and even the parents are loving kibooks. It is easy to access and easy to read.
MS. P. Mokoena
De Deur Primary School
We encourage our learners to read more at home for leisure. It’s been a great program to have at our school. Thank you very much for this amazing program, it’s much appreciated.
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