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Speech by the Executive Mayor Advocate Lentswe Mokgatle on the occasion of the 14th West Rand Careers Exhibition Wednesday 21 April 2004 Centenary Hall
President of the Rotary Club I am delighted to be present at the careers fair of the West Rand because we want to start influencing career decisions of our young people so that at least they can choose careers that are in demand and at the same time reduce the rate of unemployment. As much as we are concerned about matriculants being able to make meaningful career choices, we are also interested to have our young people, who are qualified and skilled to enter the business market. We are a nation that is orientated to seek employment after school and university. We need to change this mindset radically and start developing entrepreneurs. We should start mentoring young people into the market. In 1991, the Krugersdorp Rotary Club initiated a Careers Exhibition for Learners. The exhibition is a joint project of the Krugersdorp Rotary Club, Mogale Tourism, the Department of Education as well as the Exhibitor's Association. Programme Director, Mogale City takes is an active role player and a major sponsor of the exhibition. We appreciate the good work that Rotary Club does even outside of Mogale City. We know that Rotary Club does get involved in sourcing sponsors to stock libraries in black communities with books. It is amazing what Rotary Club has done in our communities to enlighten the minds of disadvantaged youth. It is commendable for the Krugersdorp Rotary Club to be involved in exposing our young people of school leaving age to the multiple career choices available in our modern days. I must mention at this point Programme Director that I would recommend you change your name to Mogale Rotary Club. Our intervention in education will have a meaningful impact if we assist young people that deserve to receive scholarships to pursue their chosen fields of study and careers. At the same time, that intervention sends an encouraging message to the families and students that it is not all doom and gloom when the families cannot afford tertiary education fees. It is possible to dream and reach your goals. When assisting a deserving student financially you are actually changing a generation that the beneficiary can influence during his or her lifetime. One of my staff members, Dante Mashile, was a beneficiary of the Rotary Bursary Fund that assisted him to attend a private catholic school in Atteridgeville called Holy Trinity High School. His single mother of six children would not have been able to afford a private education but with the Rotary Bursary Fund he was able to complete his matric. It is such kinds of interventions that inspire young people not to give up but to stick to their dreams. Today, Dante is one of the sought after public relations and communication professionals. We at Mogale City shall continue to associate ourselves with the Rotary International projects in the field of education. I thank you.
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