NYDA asleep on the job of job-creation: Annual Report
1 October 2014
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)'s 2013/14 Annual Report, tabled in Parliament yesterday, reveals that the Agency is asleep on the job of job-creation.
It is not doing enough to address the crisis of youth unemployment and poor skills outcomes in South Africa, the full extent of which was documented in a recent StatsSA report.
Instead of ploughing resources into economic participation and skills development programmes for the youth, the NYDA is more interested in ploughing fat pay cheques into the back pockets of its top- and senior managers.
The Annual Report reveals that in 2013/14, the NYDA: