The Democratic Alliance (DA) today marks the end of National Nutrition Week by presenting our ‘Food for Thought’ document charting the performance of the ANC-government with regards to the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) and presenting our own 5-step solution for addressing the problems associated with the programme as currently conceived. A copy of the [...]

University campuses around South Africa have long been arenas of political activism, and student organizations played a crucial role in mobilizing against the unjust apartheid system. In recent years, however, student politics has been characterised by sporadic violence and wasteful expenditure. This was highlighted once again in a recent Sunday Times article detailing how SRCs [...]

It is reported that Julius Malema, in a moment of rare clarity and cogency, has advocated nationalising South Africa’s mines in order that they might subsidise the costs of tertiary education. Brilliant. The DA would like to know why no one has thought of this before. In fact, we will be submitting a parliamentary question [...]

Fellow Young Democrats, Welcome to the first edition of my Leader’s newsletter.  I will be using it as a platform to communicate with DA Youth members, and to expand in greater detail on the issues the DA Youth is championing nationally. Fixing the Future On Monday, 13 September, we launched a position paper titled ‘Fixing [...]