{"id":51805,"date":"2021-06-17T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/nyandeni-municipality-uplifts-youth-owned-projects-20210615\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:49:29","slug":"nyandeni-municipality-uplifts-youth-owned-projects-20210615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/nyandeni-municipality-uplifts-youth-owned-projects-20210615\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyandeni Municipality uplifts youth owned projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_1328ab51\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11268\/c0fe1e1d7c4a48a4b104dabcdc6eeb9f.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/160f50b6e0ac4cd5a120690925e6a606.jpg\" title=\"Members of Thembie Solutions and Projects, with the broilers they received from Nyandeni Local Municipality.              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Photo: SUPPLIED<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NYANDENI Local Municipality has dedicated the entire month of June to give support to identified youth-owned projects as part of its celebration of Youth Day, which was commemorated yesterday, June 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of Youth Month, Nyandeni Local Municipality Mayor, Mesuli Ngqondwana, together with the municipality\u2019s special programmes unit (SPU), have handed over equipment and inputs to five identified youth projects, where a total of R300 000 was spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough this commemoration, the municipality aims at promoting youth development by supporting youth led projects, building their capacity towards owning a lifetime asset and unleashing their potential,\u201d said Nyandeni Local Municipality communications manager, Ncebakazi Kolwane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thembie Solutions and Projects founder, Thembelihle Zono, whose project was one of the beneficiaries from the support by Nyandeni Local Municipality, said the intervention could not have come at a better time, with their project on the verge of collapse with only 19 broilers left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thembelihle\u2019s project was gifted with 200 coloured broilers, heaters, feed, and vaccines as part of the municipality\u2019s intervention on youth-owned projects on June 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe support from the municipality came at a time when the project was struggling and their timely intervention really invigorated us and made us believe that we can now grow the project into a fully commercial enterprise,\u201d said Zono. \u201cWe have already bought 800 bricks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to build a proper structure for running this poultry business; we have a piece of land that we have secured, and we want to venture into food production as well,\u201d Zono added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other youth-owned projects that have benefited from the municipality\u2019s intervention were the Rainy Youth Poultry Project, the Ntlaza rugby tournament and the Mnya Academy sports tournament, hosted on June 16, when each received monetary prizes, medals, and trophies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The municipality was expected to conclude its youth-owned projects intervention programme by handing over five laptops, two printers and a Wi-Fi router, with 12 months\u2019 worth of data, to Platex Multi-Purpose Internet Caf\u00e9 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_51a9a6a6\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11268\/f08aeb963c6442eebef271ddf50cac69.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/c96c64d6a1a54dabb2b043a0348ed68a.jpg\" title=\"Apart from the broiler, Thembie Solutions and 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