School stage plays
R75/ learner
- Performance in your school hall
- R100 per learner at Soweto Theatre
- Grade R–12, matched to the right play
- Teacher follow-up activities
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Financial literacy education · Johannesburg, South Africa
Mjojo
Finance Play
We teach money through theatre, music, storytelling and play. Our work reaches Grade R learners, school pupils, students, creatives and small businesses, in English, isiZulu and Sesotho.
100+schools reached with our stage plays, most of them in Soweto
40manufacturing businesses trained on the GDED programme for NFLA
83%average score on that programme's final assessment
3teaching languages: English, isiZulu and Sesotho
Who we've worked with
National Financial Literacy Advocacy (NFLA)Gauteng Department of Economic DevelopmentEkurhuleni West TVET CollegeMohoko Trading EnterpriseSoweto TheatreFSCAMoney Smart Week South AfricaLiteracy Association of South Africa (LITASA)EDHE · Universities South AfricaCapitecDavid & Elizabeth Sibeko FoundationTestimony Tuesday
Featured programmes
Two programmes, start to finish.
We design the curriculum, facilitate every session, assess what people learned and report back. These two show the full process.
For NFLA · Funded by GDED
MSME Capacity Building Programme, Manufacturing Track
Eight two-hour modules for manufacturing businesses in Gauteng, from company registration and tax to costing, contracts, IP and tenders.
40businesses
8modules
15+templates & tools
90%median final score
Ekurhuleni West TVET College · with Mohoko Trading Enterprise
SRC leadership capacitation and findings paper
Three days of governance, conflict and constitution training for student leaders, followed by a findings paper for campus management.
6sessions
3days
5campuses assessed
4recommendations
Our work
What we've done, newest first.
More projects are being added. If we've worked together and you'd like to be listed, tell us.
How we teach
Money lessons people remember.
Our founder spent more than ten years teaching Creative Arts, Drama and Choir in Soweto schools. So every Mjojo programme uses the arts to make money ideas concrete, whether the audience is five or fifty.
Theatre
Characters make the choices first.
Learners watch a character overspend, borrow and recover, then talk about what they would have done instead.
Music & movement
Songs carry the vocabulary.
Saving, budgeting and needs-versus-wants become songs and chants that children sing on the way home.
Storytelling
Children read the world before words.
Our early-learning work, Reading for Financial Wisdom, uses stories to show the money decisions children already see around them.
Play & practice
Then everyone has a go.
Games, market days, costing templates and checklists, so learning ends with something people can use the next day.
What we offer
Four plays, Grade R to 12.
Each play is written for its age group and aligned with EMS, Life Orientation and Consumer Studies. We perform at Soweto Theatre or in your school hall.
Ways to book
WhatsApp bootcamps
R199/ learner
- Five days, delivered on WhatsApp
- Mini Rands: ages 7–12
- Teens & Rands: ages 13–19
- Budgeting, saving, earning and goals
Family Rands @ Home
R2,500
Private: up to 5 family membersExtended, R3,500: up to 10 family members
- A 3-hour session in your home
- Travel within Johannesburg included
- Can be built around a birthday or occasion
Programmes, talks & commissions
Request a quote
- Multi-week programmes for SMEs and organisations
- Campus, SRC and youth workshops
- Keynotes, panels and webinars
- Custom content, scripts and resources
Ofentse Victoria MontshiweFounder & Director
The team
A teacher who took money to the stage.
Ofentse Victoria Montshiwe was born and raised in Soweto and taught in Soweto public schools for more than a decade: Creative Arts, Choir, Drama, Sesotho and Life Skills. She saw what limited money knowledge did to families around her and started Mjojo to teach it the way she knew worked best, through the arts.
2026
Award
Award
Emerging Scholar Programme Award
Literacy Association of South Africa (LITASA), 21st Annual Conference, September 2026, for her paper Reading for Financial Wisdom.
BMus in EducationUniversity of Cape Town
Diploma in MusicFUBA Academy
MA candidate, Cultural Policy & ManagementWits School of Arts
Recent stagesLITASA conference · EDHE Studentpreneurs Indaba panel · EDHE Intervarsity judge (Gauteng)
LM
Lethabo Montshiwe · Project Coordinator
Runs logistics, scheduling and participant communication across our programmes. In 2026 Lethabo worked as a runner on The Young Scientist at the Cradle of Creativity festival, Market Theatre.
From our Start with One Rand campaign
What small savings add up to.
Illustration only. Growth assumes monthly deposits and 7% a year compounded monthly. Real returns vary and are not guaranteed.
R18 263put away
R26 300with 7% growth
Work with us
Bring Mjojo to your school, campus, company or congregation.
Emailmjojofinanceplay@gmail.com
Phone & WhatsApp064 176 5241
Based inSoweto, JohannesburgWe travel across Gauteng, and further for programmes.