I am today resigning as the Democratic Alliance Youth’s representative on the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), and the DA Youth is therefore withdrawing from this organisation, which we are convinced has become little more than a R400-million ANC patronage scheme. In the past few days, the DA has exposed how an additional R29 million [...]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has learnt with astonishment that the Presidency has granted an additional R29 million in the appropriations adjustments to the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) for the hosting of the nine-day ‘World Festival of Youth and Students’ event. This is a conference that has repeatedly been held in radical, oppressive states – [...]

The DA Youth is today calling for the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) to be shut down, and for its R370 million annual budget to be used to fund a zero-rating of VAT on books instead. We are making this call after being presented with yet more compelling evidence that the NYDA has become terminally [...]

The DA Youth hails the announcement that the DA campaign to scrap VAT on books has taken a giant leap forward, with the Standing Committee on Finance requesting a report from the National Treasury on the impact of a zero rating on the fiscal framework. This issue is now firmly on the parliamentary agenda for [...]