The Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT), in collaboration with the Free State Provincial Government and the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (Nemisa), launched the Digital Skills Development Programme for Free State Youth on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
“This is line with the existing MoU with NEMISA, as well as the agreement to jointly run the CoLab with Free State Government. The launch is vehicle to accelerate digital skill development in support of the initiative of leveraging Fourth Industrial Revolution (41R) technologies for growth and development of the Free State Province”, Free State Government in a Statement.
The Premier of the Free State Mme Sisi Ntombela will officially launch the Free State NEMISA Colab tomorrow at the Central University of Technology (Bloemfontein). pic.twitter.com/5sNQXSs9L2
— NEMISA (@NEMISA_) November 23, 2022
Premier Sisi Ntombela said this digital skills development programme will be rolled out throughout all the district of the Free State as a deliberate strategy to develop a youth that will respond to the divergent needs of all towns in the Province.
(CUT), in collaboration with the Free State Provincial Government and the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (Nemisa), launched the Digital Skills Development Programme for Free State Youth on Thursday
“A youth not properly guided and steered in the right direction becomes pray to drug syndicates, alcohol and substance abuse, early pregnancy, and ultimately a life of crime. Ours as government and most importantly as mothers and fathers is to fight to the bitter end for the future of our youth” said,Ntombela speaking at the launch.
“The programme is in line with the growth and development plan of the Free State as well as the national digital skills training for the proper use of technology, to improve the quality of life for all people in South Africa. “
“Ten thousand young people will be trained in four fundamental pillars of the digital skills development programme; basic digital literary, specialized programmes, digital transformation and research on development of work. A further two hundred SMMES will also be trained through this progressive partnership.”
“We need to find mechanism to communicate Free State to be able to attract foreign direct investment,trade across the province. We must also be able to create an ecosystem wherein our economy prospers and our young people are at the center of the work and the Free Stste we want to build.”
“Government does not communicate or showcase its good stories enough and this is where CUT and NEMISA come in in these discussions; the development of electronic and visual media to help equip our youth to tell the stories of the Free State through their own lens. Develop a workforcedevelopedto respond to the needs of our economy” said Finance MEC Gadija Brown.
“A skilled workforce is fundamental to bringing Foreign Direct Investment into the province. Investors look at a variety of factors before making investment and one of those is the skills level of the workforce”
“We are a mineral rich province but our people are living is abject poverty. Our people are dying a slow death because of alcohol and substance abuse. We welcome this massive empowerment programme that seeks to capacitate our youth and in addition to this we need to bring in the various SITAs to assist in upskilling the current workforce and train many more young people in agriculture as we as mining to accelerate economic growth and to create jobs, particularly for young people” Premier Sisi Ntombela
Nemisa was established by departments of communications and digital technogies, and their core business is skills development. The following are some of the creative arts disciplines offered; content production, radio, animation, interactive media, web development, graphic design, digital photography, story telling using digital devices. Digital Technologies courses are as follows
digital literary, data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, digital transformation etc.
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