By TDN
Mahikeng-North West Department of Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities has invested R3 million in empowering rural young people with construction skills, through the implementation of National Youth Service Programme, MEC Collen Maine said on Tuesday.
“About fifty (50) unemployed youth between the ages of 18 and 35, Maine said were trained on as brick-making, brick laying, enterprise development and end-user computing in 2012/2013 financial year. The youth were recruited from Koffiekraal, Brakkuil and Uitkyk villages in Moses Kotane Local Municipality” minister Maine said.
“Tomorrow we will host a certificate ceremony to honour these learners. We are doing this, so that they become future employers and be the change agents in the communities they come from,” he said.
Maine said that the skills the learners have acquired will increase their employability and encourage them to venture into the labour market.-TDN
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