Sedibeng District Municipality observed this through various programmes and activities aimed at information dissemination and youth programmes throughout the Municipality. These programmes included the Drama festival which was held on the 11th June 2011, the Aaron Mokoena Mini Tournament which was held on the 18th June 2011 at the Boipatong Stadium.

The purpose of these programmes was to promote the awareness and significance of drama as an education tool and to enhance the knowledge the youth have on June, 16 1976. “We dramatise the events that took place so that the youth can understand better”, says the Executive Mayor of Sedibeng District Municipality, Cllr. Mahole Simon Mofokeng.

The Aaron Mokoena Mini Tournament held this was in two folds, to honour and remember the Boipatong Massacre victims and at the same time to ensure that our young people did not forget their history and heritage. The Drama festival targeted schools, drama groups and youth in the Sedibeng District in the hope to promote cultural diversity and develop local drama groups.

Among the many youth empowerment programmes, the Sedibeng District Municipality conducted the following activities for the youth of Sedibeng:

• career seminars to motivate the 2011 matriculants and enhanced matric pass rate as compared to the 2010 pass rate and inform them of government processes;
• Renewable energy youth cooperatives mini launch to improve and pursue the sustainability of our environment and to empower the local cooperatives, handing over of gel stoves and bio gels to the value of R10 000 each cooperative,
• national youth service programme to inculcate a culture of patriotism and voluntarism amongst the Youth,
• rural youth tour in Rural areas (Narysec participants) to the Hector Peterson Square to advance a sense of patriotism, citizenship and  historical understanding amongst the Youth,
• youth in construction summit to empower the local youth within the construction industry Increase their employability; and
• the ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARENESS whose aim was to encourage the Youth to be potential entrepreneurs and capacitate them with necessary information to venture into entrepreneurial programmes.
  

Youth Month 2011