The Premier of the North West, Ms Edna Molewa, will be celebrating Youth Day together with the youth at Ganyesa Stadium on 16 June 2005 at 10:00. Among the speakers of the day will also be the Chairperson of the North West Youth Commission, Kabelo Mataboge. The programme for this year will demonstrate the benefits of a concerted effort aimed at addressing the youth development backlogs that the democratic government and the Provincial Youth Commission inherited form our unhappy past.
The Minister of Social Development, Dr Zola Skweyiya, has urged the South African NGO Coalition (Sangoco) to join in the fight against violence on women and children as part of contributing to the social development of the country.