Dear Colleagues, This letter serves the purpose of establishing some clarity about the DA Youth’s new DASO registration poster and the thinking behind it. This poster has, as you have all no doubt seen, caused a significant stir – for the first time ever the DA Youth is dominating the headlines and setting the change agenda [...]

The Democratic Alliance Youth in Gauteng North would like to congratulate Mthokozisi Nkosi, Deputy-Chairperson of the DA Students’ Organisation (DASO) at the University of Pretoria, on becoming the first DASO-aligned President of this university’s Temporary Student Committee (TSC). Following the University of Pretoria’s refusal to release Student Representative Council (SRC) election results in 2011, the [...]

We have all seen them – those eyes that follow the white mother as she tends to her black child, the faces that stop to look at the white guy as he holds his black girlfriend’s hand across a restaurant table. Maybe we were even one of those who stopped to look. Many South Africans [...]

The DA Youth welcomes the call by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) for education to be declared an essential service and for it to be de-unionised. It is most ironic that in one of the agency’s first public forays into constructively addressing the challenges facing young people that they see fit to cut and [...]