Date: 16/06/2005
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
Title: Dowry: Youth Day celebrations
Extracts from a speech by Cobus Dowry, Western Cape Minister of Agriculture at Youth Day Celebrations, Elsenburg
A CAREER IN AGRICULTURE
You as youth have an important role to play in promoting the values contained in our Constitution. They include respect for democracy, non-racialism, non-sexism, human dignity, an open society, the rule of law, reconciliation and accountability.
Today I want to invite you – if you are prepared to work, and if you are prepared to dream; there are new unlimited opportunities within your grasp.
The Department of Agriculture here at Elsenburg is the leader in many fields in agriculture in the country and we provide a wide variety of career paths that could be followed. We have six mainstream activities or programs that are aimed at improving and developing agriculture and they are, Sustainable Resource Management; Farmer Support and Development; Veterinary Services Technology; Research and Development; Agricultural Economics and Structured Agricultural Training. We also have a Finance and Human Resource Section. Each of these programmes have various sub-programmes which can offer careers from administration staff to highly qualified researchers, economists, veterinarians, plant technicians and even lecturers at the Cape Institute for Agricultural Training.
You can become masters of your own destiny if you become activists of hope. Become involved in your community and its activities. Too many people are passive and blame others for their woes. Your generation will be the politicians, even ministers and presidents of the future and I am not ruling out the possibility that we might have a female president one day. You will become the ambassadors, the business leaders, and the religious leaders of the future. But in order for that to happen I want to plead with you to become activists of hope and to become involved. You owe it to yourself!
The youth is the majority in this country. The future is yours.
DIE JEUG MOET WEER AKTIVISTE WORD – MAAR AKTIVISTE VAN HOOP
Vandag wil ek by julle pleit om lotsbepalers van die toekoms te wees en dit sal slegs gebeur as julle nou begin om aktiviste van hoop te word. As jongmense soos julle nie vennote in die ontwikkeling van Suid-Afrika gaan of wil wees nie, flits die gevaarligte vir ons land skerp en aanhoudend. Sorg dus dat u streef na ekonomiese onafhanklikheid vir u self en u toekoms.
Jongmense kan help dat beter verhoudinge gebou word en rassemure finaal afgebreek word. Die meeste jongmense vandag is onbewus van die rassehaat van die verlede. Daarvoor is hulle immers te jonk. Hulle ken nie die verlede nie ook nie die wyse waarop mense in die verlede as anders hanteer is nie. Die reste van hierdie era is die gevolg van opinies en persepsies wat nie noodwendig in ons jongmense self gesetel is nie, maar in volwassenes Julle het nou die vryheid om aktiviste van hoop te word.
Jong mense kan help om rassemure af te breek as hulle nuwe groeperinge in ons gemeenskappe opbou, wat meer inklusief is, en wat daarna streef om ander probleme in ons samelewing aan te spreek.wat hierdie era self meegemaak het. Daarom is julle generasie by uitstek gereed en voorbereid daarop om aktiviste van hoop te word.
Hierdie is ‘n aspek wat nie oornag verander kan word nie. Wat wel belangrik is, is dat die integrering van ons samelewing op baie terreine reeds ver gevorder is. Die beperkings van die verlede bestaan nie meer nie en ons het vryhede ontvang wat vroeer ongekend was.
Deur aktiviste van hoop te word kan jongmense help om vennootskappe in Suid-Afrika te bewerkstellig en verhoudinge te bou in die vestiging van ‘n vrye samelewing.
Enquiries:
Alie Van Jaarsveld
Cell: 084 604 6701
Issued by: Department of Agriculture, Western Cape Provincial Government
16 June 2005
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
Title: Dowry: Youth Day celebrations
Extracts from a speech by Cobus Dowry, Western Cape Minister of Agriculture at Youth Day Celebrations, Elsenburg
A CAREER IN AGRICULTURE
You as youth have an important role to play in promoting the values contained in our Constitution. They include respect for democracy, non-racialism, non-sexism, human dignity, an open society, the rule of law, reconciliation and accountability.
Today I want to invite you – if you are prepared to work, and if you are prepared to dream; there are new unlimited opportunities within your grasp.
The Department of Agriculture here at Elsenburg is the leader in many fields in agriculture in the country and we provide a wide variety of career paths that could be followed. We have six mainstream activities or programs that are aimed at improving and developing agriculture and they are, Sustainable Resource Management; Farmer Support and Development; Veterinary Services Technology; Research and Development; Agricultural Economics and Structured Agricultural Training. We also have a Finance and Human Resource Section. Each of these programmes have various sub-programmes which can offer careers from administration staff to highly qualified researchers, economists, veterinarians, plant technicians and even lecturers at the Cape Institute for Agricultural Training.
You can become masters of your own destiny if you become activists of hope. Become involved in your community and its activities. Too many people are passive and blame others for their woes. Your generation will be the politicians, even ministers and presidents of the future and I am not ruling out the possibility that we might have a female president one day. You will become the ambassadors, the business leaders, and the religious leaders of the future. But in order for that to happen I want to plead with you to become activists of hope and to become involved. You owe it to yourself!
The youth is the majority in this country. The future is yours.
DIE JEUG MOET WEER AKTIVISTE WORD – MAAR AKTIVISTE VAN HOOP
Vandag wil ek by julle pleit om lotsbepalers van die toekoms te wees en dit sal slegs gebeur as julle nou begin om aktiviste van hoop te word. As jongmense soos julle nie vennote in die ontwikkeling van Suid-Afrika gaan of wil wees nie, flits die gevaarligte vir ons land skerp en aanhoudend. Sorg dus dat u streef na ekonomiese onafhanklikheid vir u self en u toekoms.
Jongmense kan help dat beter verhoudinge gebou word en rassemure finaal afgebreek word. Die meeste jongmense vandag is onbewus van die rassehaat van die verlede. Daarvoor is hulle immers te jonk. Hulle ken nie die verlede nie ook nie die wyse waarop mense in die verlede as anders hanteer is nie. Die reste van hierdie era is die gevolg van opinies en persepsies wat nie noodwendig in ons jongmense self gesetel is nie, maar in volwassenes Julle het nou die vryheid om aktiviste van hoop te word.
Jong mense kan help om rassemure af te breek as hulle nuwe groeperinge in ons gemeenskappe opbou, wat meer inklusief is, en wat daarna streef om ander probleme in ons samelewing aan te spreek.wat hierdie era self meegemaak het. Daarom is julle generasie by uitstek gereed en voorbereid daarop om aktiviste van hoop te word.
Hierdie is ‘n aspek wat nie oornag verander kan word nie. Wat wel belangrik is, is dat die integrering van ons samelewing op baie terreine reeds ver gevorder is. Die beperkings van die verlede bestaan nie meer nie en ons het vryhede ontvang wat vroeer ongekend was.
Deur aktiviste van hoop te word kan jongmense help om vennootskappe in Suid-Afrika te bewerkstellig en verhoudinge te bou in die vestiging van ‘n vrye samelewing.
Enquiries:
Alie Van Jaarsveld
Cell: 084 604 6701
Issued by: Department of Agriculture, Western Cape Provincial Government
16 June 2005
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