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Nneile Nkholise is a young engineer using her knowledge to make the world better for breast cancer survivors – work that has earned her this year’s NYDA President’s Award.

The people of Limpopo no longer have to travel long distances to register their properties at the deeds office.

Isolated for 200 years, the fishing community from the island village of Enkoveni in KwaZulu-Natal can now safely cross crocodile-infested waters to get to school and economic opportunities, thanks to a new ferry.

The new For My Future project will educate young South Africans on the life choices that will help make them happier, healthier adults.

Youth

Working with police and health services, the 55 Thuthuzela Care Centres across South Africa give specialised services and support to the survivors of sexual violence, and help them find justice in court.

Thanks to the Gauteng Education Department’s admissions app, parents and guardians can now go online to select a school for children going into Grade 1 and Grade 8 in 2018.

A few years ago Sigidisabathembu Primary in KwaZulu-Natal was just two shacks with no windows and doors. Today it is a brick school with a new high-tech computer laboratory, recently handed over by the Department of Science and Technology.

A  total of 776 new foundation phase teachers recently received teaching degrees from the Sants Private Higher Education Institution. Most of them were previously unemployed youth from the rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal who were beneficiaries of bursaries from the provincial Department of Education.

Learners from trust villages near Thaba ’Nchu used to have to travel up to 70 kilometres to get to their farm school. Now a new hostel is changing their lives, and their education.

The National Youth Development Agency’s (NYDA) R430-million budget will allow it to continue funding young entrepreneurs, students and artisanal training programmes, and open four new branches.