Stacey Fru

[2] In 2016, she founded the Stacey Fru Foundation, a charity dedicated to improving access to education for children in South Africa's rural areas.

Her first book Smelly Cats[3] was written without her parents' knowledge[1] and published just before her eighth birthday.

According to the South African news provider Independent Online, the publication of her debut novel made her Africa's youngest published author.

[2] In 2016, she founded the Stacey Fru Foundation, a charity dedicated to improving access to education for children in South Africa's rural areas.

[5][6] In March 2021, she was included in a list of the 100 most influential young South Africans published by Avance Media.