The DA Youth supports the right of ANC YL members to protest; however, any action must be conducted within the confines of the law. If the law is broken and damage inflicted on either people or property in Johannesburg today, the perpetrators must be arrested and held to account. The leadership of the Youth League [...]

Today, the Democratic Alliance (DA) launches http://www.youthwagesubsidynow.org/, a website developed to track the opportunity cost of not implementing the youth wage subsidy policy announced by President Jacob Zuma in his February 2010 State of the Nation Address. Nobody disputes that South Africa has a crisis of youth unemployment. The rate of joblessness in our country [...]

The DA Youth welcomes the commitment made yesterday by Basic Education Deputy Minister, Enver Surty, that the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) would remove all students it had blacklisted. The Minister of Higher Education now needs to clarify whether and how these students will be required to pay back their loans. Because the students [...]

A significant number of South Africa’s universities are clamping down on student political activity. This is wrong. We believe it is undemocratic and to the detriment of those students with a genuine interest in politics specifically and South Africa’s future generally. I will be writing a letter to the Vice Chancellor of each university we [...]