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The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) will on Monday officially launch Youth Month at the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum in Soweto, Johannesburg. 

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says government has embarked on a number of initiatives to improve the country’s skills base - key among them to get young people involved in the fields of science, technology and innovation.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says actuarial science is an integral and indispensable part of the development of any nation as nations thrive to the extent that they are able to understand, predict and create certainty about their economic environment.

Gauteng government partnerships will provide thousands of young people with training and job opportunities while empowering them with the relevant skills needed in the job market.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Vietnamese government will offer an increased number of scholarships for South African students to participate in Maritime studies in Vietnam next year.

The BANKSETA’s Letsema and Kuyasa learnership programmes have helped empower over 12 000 youth.

Trans-Africa Projects (TAP) has generously pledged to pay tuition for 6 worthy False Bay TVET College electrical engineering students, from the Khayelitsha area who have demonstrated a talent for mathematics.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu has added his voice to the calls for youth to take advantage of the opportunities created for them.

Gauteng MEC for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Human Settlements, Paul Mashatile, has congratulated the local government in the province following the Auditor General’s report on the country’s 2014/15 municipal audit outcomes.

Transnet this week launched its bursary drive by inviting eligible students to apply for about 171 bursaries and a training programme for Chartered Accountants.