Schalk and myself spent our week meeting our new friends at the new two established youthzones sites in Nkomazi region in Mpumalanga. Mbuzini is a very remote impoverished community and the beauty of this windy area is that is situated at the mountains separated by the border of Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa and it is also where one can easily visit Samora Machel Memorial. Driekoppies however is bit different and is more still rural and surrounded by beautiful sugar cane plantation…

Today it was not only a remarkable day for the youths in Brandvlei and Tarlton informal settlement but it was also special occasion for  GDE MEC Barbara Creecy as she kept saying that this is a day to remember for her during her visit to Ithuteng High School, where she met all the leaders from other GDE sites and interacted with them, she then interacted with the learners who were learning IT skills from Siyabulela and she then went to play netball with the All Stars netball team. We then…

Blizzards FC wins R4000 for registering more Youthzones Website members in the Xstrata competition. The competition was launched last month between Steelpoort and Rustenburg site. Players of Blizzards FC went to internet cafe everyday and register their members and create emails for them. They chose not to sit around and complain or blame. Congrats to Tshepo…

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