The Department for Rural Development and Land Reform salutes the gallant young revolutionaries of June 16, 1976 generation. This day marks a celebration of a gallant struggle and a rich heroic legacy of struggle, sacrifice, solidarity and love for freedom. As the Department we are making a clarion call to the youth of our country to honour the martyrs of June 16 by taking their struggle to change the wheel of history. Everything we do today must answer to the needs of our children and those of the youth given the youthfulness of our population.
As the Department we are making a call to all the National Rural Youth Service Corps (NARYSEC) participants’ country wide to look upon youth of 1976. As we commemorate the youth day, we need to remember the youth who were at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid. The youth of South Africa are encouraged to take advantage of the NARYSEC programme that the Department has initiated.
The objective of NARYSEC is to recruit and develop youth in rural areas – aged between 18 and 35 years to be paraprofessional who will provide community service in their communities. The programme is aimed at empowering the youth with various skills and is expected to create about 10 000 opportunities for at least four youths from the 3 000 rural wards in the country including youth with disabilities.
Successful candidates will undergo an intensive training programme, based on needs identified during an induction and approved by the Department, and will receive a monthly stipend for the two year duration of the programme.Skills development will include discipline, patriotism, life skills, rights awareness and specific skills areas empowering youth to change rural areas. After the completion of the two-year training programme, candidates will work in their communities providing services in local socio-economic development.
The developed NARYSEC programme will complement the Department’ job creation model, which targets and ensures that at least one person per each household in the rural areas where the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) is being piloted, gets employed and that such employment is linked to skills development. The Department has initiated this job creation and skills development programmes, in line with its rural development mandate, to create vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities throughout South Africa and to contribute towards the key five priorities of government.
Enquiries:
Mr Eddie Mohoebi – Head of Communications
Cell: 082 550 1445
