Govt pledges unlimited support for young innovators

Thursday, October 08, 2015

The Minister of Youth Sport and Culture, Thapelo Olopeng has pledged full support to local innovators in order to help them realise their dreams.

Speaking at the launch of Di Apps mobile application this week, he urged more innovators to come forward and utilise the Youth Development Fund (YDF) as he intends to help empower the ICT sector.

He further urged all sectors to have confidence in the youth innovations adding that he is going to be an ambassador of the Ditech mobile phones and will propose to government to buy the product for their employees.

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