{"id":119201,"date":"2025-09-06T19:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119201\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:11:13","slug":"seven-year-old-bloem-girl-writes-her-first-book-sabc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119201\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-year-old Bloem girl writes her first book &#8211; SABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 7-year-old Bloemfontein girl is the toast of the town after she wrote a children\u2019s book and sold it amongst her peers.<\/p>\n<p>Nontsikelelo Phume is the author of \u2018Rainbow Business\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Phume was able to come up with a book after her mother, who is an entrepreneur, took her to a business school for children.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH | A six-year-old girl from Bloemfontein in the Free State has written a book on business, titled \u201cRainbow Business\u201d. It introduces children to the world of entrepreneurship, the value of money and savings in a fun and practical way. SABC News reporter Makgala Masiteng has\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KtCpyCRCbD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KtCpyCRCbD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SABC News (@SABCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABCNews\/status\/1964269566982279568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go to a business school and that\u2019s how I learn all about business and also told mommy that I want to write a book. She said okay and she put everything together and when she put everything together then she added some stuff,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Phume says her mother then added the book on e-commerce shops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen mommy started putting the book in shops and then me and mummy went to interviews to ask if they can put my book in the library,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO | \u201cRainbow Business\u201d a book by 7-year-old author Nontsikelelo Phume<\/p>\n<p>        \t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-year-old Bloemfontein girl is the toast of the town after she wrote a children\u2019s book and sold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-119201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}