DA calls on the NYDA to be scrapped

Loyiso Langeni
02 July 2014

The Democratic Alliance has called for the National Youth Development Agency to be scrapped. 

DA Deputy Minister in the Presidency Michael Cardo said the proposal by the Deputy Minister of Performance and Monitoring in the Presidency Buti Manamela that the NYDA Act should be reviewed will open the door for further irregular and wasteful expenditure.

Cardo said the government should rather cut its loses and scrap the agency all together. The agency has done nothing for youth development over the last five years since its formation the tiny developed is so serving political connected elite with fat salaries overseas travels and drunkards.

"Meanwhile youth unemployment is at all high in South Africa when the funds are being squandered on the national youth development agency and its leadership it would be better spent on initiatives designed to improve the lives of South Africa’s youth, such as the Youth Wage Subsidy.”  Cardoa added