#DissolveTheNYDA: The Era of ANC Patronage and Cadre Deployment Must End for Young South Africans to Prosper
29 April 2021
Today the young people of ActionSA took our #DissolveTheNYDA Campaign into a higher gear by picketing at the Office of the Minister for Women Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, to demand the dissolution of this ANC patronage network with immediate effect.
Successive ANC-led governments have clearly resolved that young people must suffer in order to get education, only for them to end up with limited career developmental opportunities. Meanwhile the NYDA has been squandering its limited resources. This is unacceptable.
We have therefore presented a memorandum of demands to the Minister Nkoana-Mashabane’s Office, as the Cabinet Member responsible for the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA).
The NYDA, which was established to facilitate interventions in these areas, is not functioning as intended and the overwhelming majority of people who derive some benefit out of it are those aligned to the governing ANC’s Graduate School of Corruption, the ANC Youth League, and its affiliates.