Daily Archives: July 17, 2015

North West premier launches Youth Trust Fund

NEWS Leave a comment

BY OBAKENG MAJE
NORTH West province premier, Supra Mahumapelo officially launched a Youth Trust Fund called Kgetsi Ya Tsie Bursary and Skill Development Fund.

The event took place at Khudutlou village, near Taung in Baga-Maidi area on Friday.

Mahumapelo said the province under his leadership came up with this initiative because they felt that there was a need to put in place a means to help the youth in the province.

He said that if they help the youth to develop their skills and further their studies, that will benefit their personal development but will also benefit their local communities respectively.

“We will invest R30m that we used in annual basis to help under-privileged children who do not have financial muscle to further their studies.

“We also want to plea to other businesses to come on board to investing in the future of our youth. Education for youth in our community
Is very imperative,” Mahumapelo said.

He said education is and always will be very important in building a strong foundation in one’s life.


Three pupils were handed over bursaries to further their studies next year in various universities across the country.

Rebaone Notoane(18) who comes from Manthe village, but a pupil at Seabo High School said she really appreciate the bursary as she want to further her studies next year.

“I am over the moon, I do not have exact words to express my happiness. It really shows that hardwork pays dividends. I will be studying Law Degree next year at North West university,” she said.

Another pupil, Tshepo Letebele(18) from Mankuroane Technical High School said “The bursary came in handy and one who said education is key was right in terms of looking at our future generation. We want our youth to be educated, to be up to date with current issues, and able to provide knowledge to the next generation,” Letebele outlines.

Ikageng Moffat(21) from Kgosietsile Lethola High School was also awarded bursary to further his study next year at Medunsa university.

One of business persons who contributed in awarding these pupils bursaries, Phaladi Moche said education is a strong building block in building a stronger and healthier community.

“We need to develop our youth because they are indeed our future leaders. I am doing this out of good heart because I know how poverty feels like. I was awarded bursary to further my studies and I know the feeling. So education is the only gateway vehicle from poverty,” he said.

Baga-Maidi Tribal Authority Kgosi Nnyoko Motlhabane applauded the initiative and encouraged the youth to take the stand and be counted.

“This starts by putting effort and emphasis on the importance of education in our youth today. As a community, it is our obligation to help a child develop their identity and be a contributing factor to society. We must refocus on the idea that a child is the centre of our community,” said Motlhabane.

One of the residents who came to experience the mouthwatering event, Olateleng Emmanuel Keakohile(27) from Tlapeng village said “As community we must provide protection, security, knowledge, and most importantly good values. If we can help our youth to become positive and engaging members of society, this will only help in developing, not only a stronger and healthier community, but a safer one as well.”

According to Mahumapelo, the aim of the fund is to help hundreds of Bokone Bophirima students who struggle to pay their tertiary tuition fees, and assist in facilitating increased access to educational opportunities to the youth of Bokone Bophirima Province.

Mahumapelo said they managed to raise more than R500 000 and therefore a massive capital injection is needed in order for the programme to realise its objectives.

Premier Mahumapelo contributed R10, 000 to the fund while each MEC will contributed R5000.

Government employees in the Province are expected to contribute R100 each to the fund.

NB: Donations can be made at this account number: Kgetsi Ya Tsie Educational and Skills Development Fund, ABSA Current Account number: 408608421
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_

BREAKING: Masha not joining NYC

NEWS Leave a comment

KickOff.com can reveal that Tefu Mashamaite will not be joining MLS side New York City FC following the League’s decision to reject the club’s request to add more players for the current season.

The former Kaizer Chiefs skipper impressed during a a 10-day trial at the US club, but ‘Masha’ is coming home empty-handed.

The player’s agent Jazzman Mahlakgane explained to KickOff.com that ‘it looked more like a done deal’, but nothing materialised.
For more http://www.kickoff.com

Bokone Bophirima residents encouraged to stay true to the ideals Tata Madiba lived for

NEWS Leave a comment

BY OBAKENG MAJE
Mahikeng- As the world will be commemorating Mandela Day on Saturday, Premier of Bokone Bophirima Supra Obakeng Ramoeletsi Mahumapelo encourages communities to join the global movement and help change the world for the better this Mandela Day. 

This annual international day of humanitarian action in celebration of Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy, creates an opportunity for all people, irrespective of their economic, social or political to work together to confront social ills within their communities and to build a better world. 

Premier Mahumapelo says as various Provincial Government institutions and individuals will be responding to a call to action by devoting 67 minutes of their time to community service, they should do so mindful of the triple challenges the society is facing, and consider ways of sustaining the programmes initiated in the context of making every day our Mandela Day. 

“Tata Nelson Mandela held education close to his heart. As the Provincial Government, we will on Friday, 17 July, a day before International Mandela Day, be making a renewed commitment to carry forward the vision Tata had for education by launching the Kgetsi-Ya-Tsie Education and Skills Development Fund. As we are beginning the journey of changing our young people’s lives for the better, we call on all sectors of the society to join hands and play their part in making a difference in other people’s lives”, Premier Mahumapelo said.

 

Some of the activities the provincial departments and municipalities will embark on as part of their contribution towards 67 minutes for Mandela include amongst others, painting and cleaning of schools environment in Greater Taung and Ratlou Local Municipalities, sod turning for construction of houses for three destitute families in Greater Taung, handing-over of school shoes to learners at Khudutlou Primary School in Taung and donation of groceries to the elderly in Lokaleng, Taung.
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_

EFF members allegedly attacked by ANC members in Rustenburg

NEWS Leave a comment

By Staff Reporter
Rustenburg- The Economic Freedom Fighters says they condemn in the strongest terms what they dubbed ‘cowardly political violence and intolerance by an ANC councillor in ward 22 of Rustenburg’.

They say ANC councillor, Levoyo Tolo Maqwane, led a mob of about 50 ANC thugs and hooligans to attack EFF activists with bricks, leaving their cars damaged.

EFF North West spokesperson Thabo Sehloho said the EFF activists were campaigning in the area for the EFF Second …Anniversary Rally to be held in Olympia Park Stadium.

“The EFF has opened a case with the police at Boitekong Police Station, reference number CAS 176/7/2015. All other fighters whose cars were damaged also opened criminal cases.

“The EFF is fully aware that the coward ANC have resorted to political thuggery and violence in response to with the shifting sands beneath their feet. They are acting according to the directives of their leader Blade Nzimande who said EFF must be killed” he said.

According to Sehloho, there is no doubt that the EFF has gained a massive support in this region and there is nothing except intimidation and violence that the ANC and Nzimande can resort to, to save the ANC fall from grace.

He said EFF wants to send a strong message to both the police and the ANC that it will not stand by when its activists are being attacked and nothing is done. “We are not afraid of anybody and no one has any right to use violence in a political game. If this is the case, the EFF will be forced to defend its political freedoms by any revolutionary means necessary,”.
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_

Deputy Minister Ndabeni-Abrahams encourages the youth to stand up and be counted

NEWS Leave a comment

Taung – 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 on Friday, 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.
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_