The DA Youth believes that the National Youth Development Agency should apologise for hosting the youth organisation of Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, at its recent World Festival of Youth and Students. We understand that members of the General Union of Jamahiriya Students attended last year’s R100 million festival. The General Union is backed by Libyan [...]

The DA Youth is highly concerned that the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has been awarded an appropriation of R1.22 billion over the next three years. The National Youth Development Agency has been nothing more than an ANC Youth League exercise in cadre deployment and wasteful expenditure since its inception on 16 June 2009. Its [...]

The DA Youth applauds Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan’s decision to move forward with a R5 billion youth employment subsidy. In last year’s budget speech, Minister Gordhan pledged to ensure that a discussion paper on the subsidy would be finalised by March 2010; although the paper is being tabled eleven months behind schedule, we are [...]

The DA Youth applauds Andile Lungisa for single-handedly bringing democratic reform to the Middle East with his recent World Festival of Youth and Students. Mr. Lungisa was recently quoted as saying: “Before the festival there were no protests in Egypt. After the festival, there were. Draw your own conclusions.” We agree – this is a [...]