Petition to #ScrapNYDA Now!

For almost two decades, since the days of the Umsobomvu Youth Fund, youth unemployment has been on a steady rise, with the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) merely acting as an R800-million cash proxy for those who fail to make the cut in the ANC.

It is our view that the NYDA should be leading the charge in ensuring that the education sector responds to the economic demands and opportunities that will await prospective job-seekers.

It should be engaging stakeholders from the education sector and the private sector to address the need for “a soft landing” post education and training.

Instead, the NYDA has continued with baseless excursions with their friends abroad at the expense of taxpayers.

Sign this petition demanding that Parliament:

  1. Scraps the NYDA and establishes Youth Works Opportunity Centres across the country, to service work-seekers and small businesses.
  2. Allocates funds towards the establishment of Youth Economic Zones for trading, to revive the industrial and manufacturing sector.
  3. Establishes Innovation Hubs, to service new markets in metropole areas for creatives in the Arts and Culture sector.
  4. Establishes a one-stop-shop, to cut red tape in the formalisation of small and emerging businesses by young people.
  5. Makes drastic policy shifts, to include incentives for employers and the adoption of the Youth Wage Subsidy as a government policy.

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It is our view that the NYDA should be leading the charge in ensuring that the education sector responds to the economic demands and opportunities that will await prospective job-seekers.

It should be engaging stakeholders from the education sector and the private sector to address the need for “a soft landing” post education and training.

Instead, the NYDA has continued with baseless excursions with their friends abroad at the expense of taxpayers.

Sign this petition demanding that Parliament:

  1. Scraps the NYDA and establishes Youth Works Opportunity Centres across the country, to service work-seekers and small businesses.
  2. Allocates funds towards the establishment of Youth Economic Zones for trading, to revive the industrial and manufacturing sector.
  3. Establishes Innovation Hubs, to service new markets in metropole areas for creatives in the Arts and Culture sector.
  4. Establishes a one-stop-shop, to cut red tape in the formalisation of small and emerging businesses by young people.
  5. Makes drastic policy shifts, to include incentives for employers and the adoption of the Youth Wage Subsidy as a government policy.