Good evening my leaders. My leaders I support collective ideas with one voice but I accessability of the venue, I mean how do we(the poor and unemployed youth) get to midrand?
On 10/25/11, Khaya Xaba <[email protected]> wrote: > MEDIA ADVOSORY: For Immediate Release > > > > *Programme and REMINDER for the Jobs for Youth Summit 2011* > > > > 25 October 2011 > > > > The 2nd Annual *Jobs for Youth Summit* is going ahead from *26-28 > October* *2011 > (starting tommorrow) at the Eskom Convention Centre in Midrand* starting at > 10h00. Already, 164 youth organisations have confirmed to participate in the > Summit. Convened under the theme: "Jobs for Youth to End Poverty and > Inequality"leaders of youth political formations, trade-unions affiliated to > COSATU, traditional leaders, young entrepreneurs, young academics, leaders > of youth co-operatives, government ministers and bureaucrats, students > leaders from COSAS, SASCO and SAUS, the South African Youth Council; and all > young people interested in consolidating a Jobs for Youth blueprint have > confirmed to attend. > > > > The Keynote Address to the Summit will be delivered by the newly appointed > Deputy Minister in the Presidency: Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr. Obed > Bapela. The Director Generals of Mineral Resources, National Planning and > Economic Development will also address the Summit and discuss possible > solutions to youth unemployment. The Ministers of Higher Education & > Training, Public Enterprise and Envioronmental Affairs have also confirmed > to address the Summit. The Deputy National Chairperson of the NYDA, whom his > institution has expressed its support for the Summit, will deliver the > Opening and Welcome address. > > > > "This will be the only platform within which young people can air their > collective and united voice to challenge leaders in government and the > private sector and ensure that they directly influence policy rather than > shouting on the sidelines. This Summit will also be historic in that it is > held in the year our government declared as a "Year for Jobs", and taking > place in the backdrop of the Medium Term Budget Framework Statement > delivered by Pravin Gordan earlier today." said Buti Manamela, National > Secretary of the YCLSA. > > > > "The Summit will, in the end, emerge with resolutions and a declaration > focusing on economic transformation, skills development, and education and > mining transformation. The Summit will also detail a clear Plan of Action > for engagement with all sectors of society in order to change the lives of > the 4 million young people who are neither in a job nor in an education or > skills institution. > > > > "Our mission is clear; we will create a single youth voice of youth to > reverse their miseries, fight inequality, poverty and unemployment" > > > > Manamela further said that this will not just be a talkshop and for > normal rhetoric, but about practical and pragmatic programmes to push > government for more jobs, and encourage youth initiatives to create jobs or > be absorbed in the labour market. > > > > He further said that this will not be a "One Night Stand" with the > unemployed youth, but a focused and consistent programme to create > sustainable jobs for young people. He emphasised that the diversity in views > but unity in purpose of the delegates would be the strength of the Summit > and the basis within which all young people will get mobilised into action. > > > > Issued by the YCLSA > > > > For interviews, please contact the following people: > > > > Thulane Tshefuta, President of SAYC on 083 380 4456 > > > > For more details of the Summit and Media Accreditation please contact Mafika > Mndebele on 082 567 3557 or Khaya Xaba on 074 520 4204 > > > > Full programme attached. > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
