Through the local youth office, Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality aims to ensure that young people are able to access services aimed at assisting and developing them in order to participate in the economic development of the town. This also creates employment.
Mayor Jabulile Mbele would like to encourage young people to participate and complete tasks that will enable them to achieve their goals.
Under Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality, there are five successful grant applicants. Two of the applicants received a grant amount of R10,000 and the other three received grants amounting to R50,000.
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“I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our stakeholder the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) for always availing themselves of their services to assist young people in our municipality,” said Mrs Mbele.
She also congratulated Smangele Sithole from Loskop for being awarded a business start-up grant of R10,000 from the NYDA.
“She was one of the young people who applied for assistance through our local youth office. She was then requested to attend a business workshop, which was held in May 2019. She also completed a five-day course on Entrepreneur Development Programmes through the NYDA, which is one of the qualifying criteria. Ms Sithole will be starting poultry farming in Loskop and she was awarded with 150 chicks, 15 x 25kg chicken feed sacks, lighting, chicken water and food bowls, 10 x 25kg sawdust and other items. These items are to ensure that she is able to grow, sustain her business and be able to create employment,” further explained Mrs Mbele.
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