The Democratic Alliance Youth in Gauteng North would like to congratulate Mthokozisi Nkosi, Deputy-Chairperson of the DA Students’ Organisation (DASO) at the University of Pretoria, on becoming the first DASO-aligned President of this university’s Temporary Student Committee (TSC). Following the University of Pretoria’s refusal to release Student Representative Council (SRC) election results in 2011, the [...]

We have all seen them – those eyes that follow the white mother as she tends to her black child, the faces that stop to look at the white guy as he holds his black girlfriend’s hand across a restaurant table. Maybe we were even one of those who stopped to look. Many South Africans [...]

The DA Youth welcomes the call by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) for education to be declared an essential service and for it to be de-unionised. It is most ironic that in one of the agency’s first public forays into constructively addressing the challenges facing young people that they see fit to cut and [...]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes today’s release of the Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training by Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande. We will engage with the plans set out in the Green Paper and make a submission in due course. We encourage all education and training providers to do the same, [...]