Theme: “Our Heritage, Our Pride”
Government has agreed on 12 Outcomes as a key focus of work between now and 2014. Each outcome has a limited number of measurable outputs with targets. Each output is linked to a set of activities that will help achieve the targets and contribute to the outcome. Each of the 12 outcomes has a delivery agreement which in most cases involve all spheres of government and a range of partners outside government. Combined, these agreements reflect government’s delivery and implementation plans for its foremost priorities.
In response to this mandate, the MEC for Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Mr Dan Kgothule, has embarked on a programme to address Outcome 12 part B which talks about “An Empowered, Fair and Inclusive Citizenship”. The Outcome 12 part B has the following outputs which need to be realised through activities:
- Nation Building and National Identity
- Citizen Participation
- Social Cohesion.
Part of the programme adopted by MEC Kgothule to address Outcome 12 is the introduced of a concept of Youth Camps and Cultural Evenings targeting specifically young people who are in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
100 Students who are bursary holders of the Free State Provincial Government Bursary Scheme and studying in the Free State will participate in the Inaugural Youth Camps and Cultural Evenings programme that will be staged as follows:
Date: 30 November to 4 December 2011
Venue: Basotho Cultural Village (Qwa Qwa)
Students have been selected based on the number enrolled at a particular HEI and merit as per their performance in the June Examinations. The HEIs include Boston College, Central University of Technology, DAMELIN, Flavius Mareka FET, Free State School of Nursing, Glen College, Goldfields FET, Maluti FET, Motheo FET, PC Training Business College, Stanford Business College and University of Free State.
The main objectives of the programme are:
- Creation of an interactive platform for young people in discussing challenges they are faced with;
- Understanding and redefining the role young people should play in shaping their province and history for the better;
- To better position young people as agents of change and leaders of societal change in the province; and 4) To form long term partnership with young people that will lead our province to its full realisation of youth development.
Today our struggle has entered a new epoch. With the same spirit as the 1976 generation, young people in the Free State must proceed to be responsible and be first to occupy the forward ranks in the struggle for the reconstruction and development of their province in general. They must be in the forefront in the struggle to defeat the scourges of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, drugs and alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, HIV and AIDS; criminality and ignorance.
