Deputy Minister of Communications joins Setsokotsane in Taung to engage with Youth
Deputy Minister of Communications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has encouraged the youth to take themselves seriously in order to build a legacy that they can be proud of.
The Deputy Minister was speaking in Taung earlier today where she engaged in a Youth Dialogue with over 400 young people who had been mobilised as part of Bokone Bophirima’s accelerated service delivery programme dubbed Setsokotsane that is currently addressing service delivery backlogs in the area.
“The bright future that we earn for depends on our collective efforts. We have a responsibility to build the legacy that we can be proud of. It is only when you take yourself seriously that you will understand that everything that the constitution and the freedom charter articulated,” said the Deputy Minister.
Ndabeni-Abrahams was accompanied by MEC for Community Safety and Transport Oageng Molapisi, the Executive Mayor of Dr Ruth Mompati District Municipality Cllr Elvis Tladinyane, the Mayor of Greater Taung Local Municipality Cllr Kaone Lobelo and Kgosi Tshepo Mankuroane, among others.
Various public entities that participated in the dialogue included the North West Development Corporation, the National Youth Development Agency, Brand SA who shared information on the way by which to access available entrepreneurial and employment opportunities.
The Youth Dialogue, which was organised in conjunction with the Youth Entrepreneurship Services unit within the Office of the Premier of Bokone Bophirima, was also running concurrently with Setsokotsane exhibitions by various government departments offering services and opportunities to youth.
According to the Director of Youth Entrepreneurship Services Thapelo Sekawana, it is important for the government to create such platforms to assist young people to harness opportunities available through training, employment and entrepreneurship. These platforms will in future, be created through the youth camps.
Early on Wednesday Premier Mahumapelo met with the Setsokotsane team in Taung to get a briefing on the progress being made, and reiterated his vision about Setsokotsane which he sees as the best approach to respond to the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality in the Province.
“Part of the rebranding is to deconventionalise and that’s why there is Setsokotsane, to put theory into practice. It is about putting people in the field to do work and by doing that we will be working towards achieving the objective of the National Democratic Society. Resources are not limitless and that’s why we use little resources that we have to achieve more with less. Through Setsokotsane, we can do work in one day that people have been unable to do in a year,” said Premier Mahumapelo.
Premier Mahumapelo will be back in the area tomorrow to fulfil one of the promises he made in his State of the Province Address to establish a provincial bursary fund to be known as Kgetsi-Ya-Tsie Bursary and Skills Development Fund.
The fund will be launched in Khudutlou Village at Baga-Maidi Primary School Sports Ground at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, with a view to assist hundreds of Bokone Bophirima students who struggle to pay their tuition fees and facilitate increased access to educational opportunities to the youth of Bokone Bophirima.
For enquiries, contact
Mr Brian Setswambung
Acting Provincial Head of Communication
Office of the Premier
North West Provincial Government
Cell: 084 702 4501 / 076 012 4501
E-mail: bsetswambung@nwpg.gov.za
