MIDRAND – Various organisations host a youth development programme in Rabie Ridge.
Welisa Nene
Various organisations encourage the youth of Rabie Ridge.
Thanks to the National Department of Basic Education and other relevant stakeholders such as the Business Unite and The Job Club, the Youth Development Programme was hosted in the Rabie Ridge community hall on 19 January.
The main purpose of the event was to enjoy fruitful and interactive engagements with the Rabie Ridge youth, to explain the role of the youth within a community, as well as to encourage them to collectively take ownership of their future.
Those in attendance included members from the Dr Mathole Motshega’s Kara Heritage Institute; Rabie Ridge councillors Lesibana Lamola and Maongua Pagadi; Business Unite’s Hester de Bruyn, The Job Club’s Thomas Padi; the department’s Metsi Ramulana; Pan African Genesis’ Sibongile Khumalo, AND Erikka Motang from Innovative Colour Accounting.
Youngsters gather at the Rabie Ridge community hall.
They all played a role in empowering and encouraging the youth of Rabie Ridge amidst their sea of poverty and unemployment.
The main host for the event, Lamola, warmly welcomed the throngs of young people and proceeded by paying a special tribute to Motshekga, thanking him for all the unwavering support and care he has continued to give the community of Rabie Ridge over the years.
Khumalo reminded the youth of the pivotal role played by Africa to help South Africa and said Pan African Genesis conceived the African Diaspora called Pan African Cross Cultural Exchange Programme which would witness unemployed youth become employed.
Motshekga assured the young people that they would benefit from all the mentioned interventions and that they would become part of Masupatsela Young Pioneers, a youth movement, spearheaded by the Kara Heritage Institute and Pan African Genesis.
