Mzansi Today – the monthly newsletter of DA Youth Leader, Makashule Gana. Fellow Democrats, While preparing a media statement for International Youth Day on 12 August, I spent some time contemplating the UN-set theme of “change our world”. This is a grand and sweeping statement that is, I think, intended as a call to action. [...]

The Chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), Andile Lungisa, has threatened to make South Africa “ungovernable” and suggested illegal action to this end. This is akin to the chairperson of Eskom saying they would destroy all electricity pylons because electricity costs too much. If the NYDA wants to play a meaningful role in [...]

The DA Youth notes the decision by the ANC to charge Julius Malema with misconduct for his utterances on Botswana and “sowing divisions” in the ANC. It is a pity that this urgency does not stretch to the multi-million rand corruption allegations against Malema. These allegations have so far gone unchallenged, un-repudiated and un-investigated by [...]

The following speech was presented by Federal DA Youth Leader, Makashule Gana, today at the Black Management Forum Young Professionals Development Summit in Cape Town. The question before us today is how best to place the youth at the centre of ‘African Development’. It is an important question but one which needs some clarification before [...]