The Transport Career Expo for the Girl Child is a way to expose learners in the Northern Cape to career opportunities, learnerships, bursaries and internships within the transport industry.
This is according to MEC for Transport, Safety and Liaison Ms Martha Bartlett and Minister for Transport Ms Dipuo Peters who addressed over 500 youths from across the ZF Mgcawu District in the Northern Cape at the Transport Career Expo for the Girl Child in Upington.
Minister Peters encouraged the learners to seize opportunities in the industry and not wait for opportunities to come to them. She said there was a lot of potential from the youth in the Province and they had to explore opportunities in the industry.
MEC Bartlett, encouraging the learners also highlighted importance transport played in the economy of the province and the opportunities it created.
She said the Transport Career Expo for the Girl Child should be seen as testimony that government is committed to address social challenges the country faces.
“This initiative is to create awareness about career opportunities within the transport sector with specific focus on youth development and to expose the students to the importance of the Transport Sector in the economy of South Africa,” said MEC Bartlett.
“As government this is a way to facilitate an opportunity for students to interact with experienced industry professionals, and also afford them to engage our transport entities,” Bartlett added.
She said government has placed the issue of education in general and skills development in particular high on the list of its priorities for the next five years.
Bartlett said, “We are of the firm view that a nation with a skilled workforce will always be in a better position to respond to global social and economic challenges of any nature.”
She urged the youth to be “responsible and to make a contribution towards a united, non-sexist, non-racist and democratic society, a future South Africa where we all live together with total disregard of our race or gender.”
She further urged the youth to make the best of available opportunities, to focus on their studies and commit to positive change and thus open up a new world full of limitless possibilities.
Annually during October, the Department embarks on numerous activations that highlight the crucial role transport plays in our society.
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Issued by the Northern Cape Department of Transport, Safety and Liaison