Speaking at a Microsoft sponsored leaders' forum in Cape Town - attended by Microsoft boss Bill Gates, who is on his way to Lesotho - hinted that it would be a job creating mechanism with strong links to fast-tracking the development of South Africa's youth through ICT.
She said in a prepared speech: "Through ICT we have to fast track the development of our youth whom we refer to as e-cadres who will revolutionarise their lives and those of their communities through ICT."
"As the government in South Africa, we are also at the brink of launching the National Youth Service through which young South Africans will be engaged in a meaningful and constructive manner."
She noted that the existing Umsobomvu Youth Fund would help "to catapult thousands of young people into a brighter future that they deserve".
She said among the partners in the programme would be Microsoft and South Africa's further Education and Training Colleges and universities.
Meanwhile a local Cape Town newspaper reported on Monday afternoon that Gates had toured HIV and TB projects into which his foundation had poured some R700m.
He was expected to be joined in Lesotho later this week by former United States President Bill Clinton where they will visit HIV/Aids projects.
Clinton was expected to pass through Cape Town on Monday.