{"id":1529,"date":"2020-06-05T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/06\/05\/government-messages-on-youth-month\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:56:33","slug":"government-messages-on-youth-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/06\/05\/government-messages-on-youth-month\/","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT MESSAGES ON 2020: YOUTH MONTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Government has declared the month of June as Youth Month, a period set aside to pay tribute to young people for their activism and contribution to the country\u2019s development.<\/li>\n<li>Government is aware of the devastating effects of COVID-19 on all of society and its effects on the youth.<\/li>\n<li>Government encourages the youth to adopt to our new normal, which requires creativity, innovation and acceleration of the 4IR revolution.<br \/>\n<!--more-->\n<\/li>\n<li>Government remains committed to advancing the youth agenda and recognises the importance of youth activism in driving economic growth.<\/li>\n<li>Government re-affirmed the commitment to deal with challenges of youth by establishing the new Ministry in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Government has also increased the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) budget from R70 million in 1994 to over R15 billion in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>We encourage young people to continue in the spirit of Thuma Mina and play their part to take forward the issue of youth development and make South Africa a progressive place to live in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has declared the month of June as Youth Month, a period set aside to pay tribute to young people for their activism and contribution to the country\u2019s development. Government is aware of the devastating effects of COVID-19 on all of society and its effects on the youth. Government encourages the youth to adopt to<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/06\/05\/government-messages-on-youth-month\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}