TUT bursaries will help put diversity into biodiversity

23 June 2016 - 13:07 By Kingdom Mabuza

The wild game industry contributes a great deal to our gross domestic product through tourism and job opportunities‚ Tshepo Ramaphosa noted on Thursday. "We have a serious problem of unemployment‚ but the job opportunities that the wild game industry provides has been enormous and grows year by year‚" the deputy president’s wife said.She was speaking at the Tshwane University of Technology‚ where bursaries worth R630 000 were awarded to 16 students studying game ranch management and nature conservation.She said the bursaries would assist students‚ particularly blacks‚ to play a significant role in the industry - "the bursaries go to disadvantaged students whose future would be greatly promoted‚ these are our future leaders”.Ramaphosa likened the recipients to Cinderella‚ saying the heroine of the folk tale “was disadvantaged and she was oppressed and she became a princess and this is what is going to happen”.“These are the future princes and princesses. They are in an era where there is so much light‚" Ramaphosa said of the bursary recipients."With transformation we are not only securing the future of these young people‚ but also the future of our grandchildren‚" she said‚ adding that peace and stability can only be attained through transformation.Ramaphosa said South Africa was not a manufacturing country‚ “but what we have at the moment is our wild game‚ our biodiversity; this is what we have that other countries do not have". – TMG Digital..

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