Youth and unemployment

Happiness Koma

At Magobading village, we youths met regarding the mines that want to open in our community. We met all the youths and had different ideas but in the end, we ended up as a family and we agreed on the decisions. After there were posts and some of us said they were going to support it, luckily here the mine told them that they should have structure in our community.

They see it as better to bring together all young people who are looking for jobs or those who are unemployed. To establish the same forum that has been listening to us in the Sefatang mine at Tjibeng village. Also here I gave them the knowledge I gained when I attended the training (Right training for Indigenous people and mining communities in South Africa)which was under the center of environmental rights, and natural justice. They were very happy to hear what I was holding for them because most of us have long known nothing about the acts or the SLP itself.

The only thing to hear is that we can ask for a hard copy of the social labor plan. The document cannot be done without our knowledge and we think it should not only be held by mine people. I didn’t stay with the knowledge I got and just sat with it, I shared it with other kids. I would like to thank my leaders and my presence in the Activist space. The group is there to know the important things that other people need to know, they need people to give them to. After our meeting, five people were selected to meet with the mine people representing the communities at the mine on Monday. In the case of jobs, leadership, internships, etc.

In an Interview with the chairperson of the structure, he said they traveled to the tree mine where they met young people from other communities where they felt it was important to live and attend meetings here Magobading. They are representing their community and now they are happy to see some young people want to represent their community. They say they needed a roll call minutes to show that they were sent by the community to start them. Fortunately, all of those things are holding them there and they need proof that they are residents of the area.

Interview

We went there not knowing what they were going to talk to us about. But because we are young we knew what we wanted and we talked and showed that we have always wanted jobs on my side where the problem is. If they ask us about the issue of a certificate of residency in Phasha. They explained that there are people who live in communities like Habeng, and Motloulela but they are there to attend the meetings there because they represent the community. We thought it best that from here we will start if they want people we know that you are also in the group of our youth in Sefatang mine.