NYDA 2023/34 Annual Performance Plan

Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities

03 May 2023
Chairperson: Ms C Ndaba (ANC)
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The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities was briefed by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) on its Annual Performance Plan and Budget for 2023/24.

The presentation discussed the NYDA’s key objectives, strategic overview, programmes and targets. The NYDA was allocated an additional R200 million in 2022/23 and R250 million in 2023/24 for the implementation of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention National Youth Service. This has created more than 50 000 job opportunities since the 2022/23 financial year. Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the Agency was still feeling the effects of the budget cuts implemented across sectors of Government, resulting in the 2023/24 budget allocation remaining at 0.38% increase when compared to prior year’s allocation of R481 million.

Members of the Committee agreed that the targets of the NYDA were smart. The Members commended the NYDA on the format and layout of its APP. The APP of the NYDA outshone the Department. It was good to see that the NYDA had increased its targets. The Members raised concerns about certain board members. The NYDA was supposed to be presenting to the Committee as a team. There were three board members not present in the meeting. The board members needed to prioritise the Committee. The Committee was not going to accept the behaviour of certain board members. There were no targets regarding the board. There was no tracking, assessments, or KPIs to track governance. The Committee recommended that on a quarterly basis the board report on the work that it did in provinces. It needed to include budget costs, expenditure, and other budget implications. This was necessary for the Committee to do oversight, monitor and evaluate the work of the board. The Members also addressed the Department. It was concerning with the Department tried to piggyback on the work that the NYDA did. A Member cautioned the Department. The advocacy work of the NYDA was discussed. The Department should be doing that kind of advocacy and ensuring that young people lived in a safe country that had economic opportunities for them to live better lives. It was a concern that oftentimes it felt like the NYDA was doing the work that should be done by the Department. The issue of donor funding was discussed. It was requested that the NYDA provide a report or presentation on donor funding. The presentation spoke about regulatory burdens that did not support small businesses. What were those specific regulatory burdens that did not support small businesses?

Members of the Committee wanted to know how to assist the NYDA to remove the burden. The presentation highlighted the six values of the NYDA. One of the values that were critical was accessibility. When the NYDA measured these six values, did it see itself as being accessible? All the Members of the Committee agreed that accessibility to the NYDA’s services was a problem. NYDA’s main role was to ensure that young people ended up at work. Where did the NYDA come in when it came to capacitating and training to ensure that young people found work? How did the NYDA work with different Departments to ensure that they absorbed those young people who were looking for work? Often entities and Departments worked in silos. Therefore, no one knew who was doing what. It was agreed that the NYDA should come to the Committee with a draft plan for the board members. The report should detail the performance of the board members linked to quarterly targets. That was the only way of making the other board members perform.

The NYDA had seven days to respond in writing to the questions of the Members.

Meeting report

The Chairperson welcomed the Members and all officials from the NYDA to the meeting.

The apologies were read into the record.

The Chairperson told the NYDA that the Committee was aware that there were two board members who often did not attend Committee meetings. It was concerning that both Ms Alexandria Procter and Ms Lebogang Mulaisi had only attended one Committee meeting. Why would people accept appointments when they were forever unavailable? Young people were expecting to be serviced by the NYDA’s board members. If the board members were not present to render services that they were appointed for, then they should resign. The Committee could advertise those positions and appoint people who are serious about serving young people. South Africa had a challenge of young people not working. Young people expected a lot from the board that was serving their interests. There was no way the Committee would accept the absenteeism of board members from Committee meetings. It told the Committee that those board members were not even servicing young people in the provinces they were deployed by the NYDA. The Committee was not sure how the NYDA was assessing the performance of its members. How did members service young people in the provinces they were expected to be in? She had not seen those two board members in the Committee’s oversight visits. That was concerning. The Committee would expect a report from the Chairperson of the NYDA. The NYDA needed to provide the Committee with a report on what these two board members were doing. People needed to go and work. If they were not working then they should resign, and the Committee would appoint serious people. If board members were not working, then they should be replaced. There were a lot of brilliant minds who could serve the young people of South Africa. The Committee was concerned about people who were not doing what they were expected to be doing. Being a board member was not for a status purpose. Board members should be committed to serving the young people of South Africa. The Committee wanted a report. Were the members doing their job within the NYDA or not? There was no way that the Committee would overlook the matter. The Committee expected a report from the NYDA. The Chairperson noted that Ms Procter was overseas. Every time the Committee had a meeting she was overseas. Was she overseas because of NYDA work or personal work?

Ms Asanda Luwaca, Executive Chairperson, NYDA, responded that Ms Procter was currently abroad. Ms Procter had a business that required her to travel. The NYDA tried to use her travelling to reach various networks that she had made so that the work of the agency could be enhanced. It was a combination of personal work as well as utilising those networks to advance the work of the agency.

The Chairperson said that Ms Luwaca must never be a shop steward. In the next meeting, the Committee expected a report on the networks that Ms Procter was bringing to the NYDA. It did not make sense that she was going overseas for her private business. Before the NYDA came in, this was what the Committee was discussing. The Committee did not want a situation of conflict of interest. How would the NYDA respond? She told Ms Luwaca not to be a shop steward because this situation would come back to her.

Ms C Phiri (ANC) asked at whose expense was Ms Procter overseas. Was it a situation of double dipping? Was the expense being split 50/50? Was it at the expense of the agency? Or was it at Ms Procter’s expense? When Ms Procter came back, how would the claims work? The Committee needed to get a proper understanding of what was happening.

Ms Luwaca responded that Ms Procter travelled at her own personal cost. The NYDA could provide that information to the Members. The only cost that the agency covered was the direct costs relating to conferences or summits that Ms Procter would be attending as mandated by the agency. However, the travelling that she did came out of her personal costs.

The Chairperson said that the board members were supposed to be physically in the meeting. She told Ms Luwaca to never do favours for board members. Ms Luwaca was expected to treat each board member fairly. If the Chairperson of the NYDA started like that then the board would be divided. One of the reasons the CGE was in the newspapers for the wrong reasons was those kinds of favours. The board members’ work ethic needed to be aligned with the NYDA’s code of conduct. Ms Procter was always absent. The Committee needed a report. Was she willing to serve the young people of South Africa? Or did she want to serve her businesses? If Ms Procter was busy with her businesses, then she should focus on her businesses. The Committee would then go to the House and pick the next person from the list. The President would then appoint the next person on the list. The Committee did not want to waste time. The Committee did not want to hear any more stories. The same applied to Ms Mulaisi. The NYDA needed to do the same. Did Ms Mulaisi want to serve on the board? Or was she busy with her work? The Committee understood that some of the members were part-time. But when a person applied to be on the board, that person told the Committee in an interview that they would be willing to serve the young people of South Africa. The Committee asked them if they knew how to manage their time. The Committee was guarding against these things. The Committee would need a report on those two members.

The Chairperson welcomed the Director-General and officials from the Department. The Minister was attending to a commitment. The Chairperson thanked the NYDA for the good work it was doing in Mpumalanga. The good work the NYDA was doing in Mpumalanga made the Committee smile. The Committee wished that all the offices of the NYDA could be working like the offices in Mpumalanga. It was the first time she visited an office where she saw public servants passionate to serve the young people of South Africa. The Committee was very impressed. She noted all the projects the Committee visited. At one project there was a young man who ran a workshop and fixed cars. The NYDA could assist that young man. That young man could create more employment for young people. He could also open other branches in Mpumalanga. The NYDA could create lots of jobs in Mpumalanga and help a young entrepreneur. The NYDA needed to look into that matter to see how it could assist that young person. The Members felt that that was a real project that the NYDA could fund. She liked that this young man was passionate about what he was doing. The Members could see that those workers were passionate about what they were doing. The NYDA could do advocacy. It could go to municipalities or Government Departments and try to get contracts for them. That could be a good legacy project for the NYDA. The Committee did not know the young man; he was not a relative. The Committee was just impressed with the work that he was doing. She noted that there was another young lady who ran a project. The young lady was getting too much funding. She had a car, her offices were paid, the stock was bought, and the machines were bought. This was one person. That was not the problem of the NYDA. That was the problem of the Mpumalanga Provincial Government. They were funding one person with a lot of money, but there were other young people who needed those funds, but they were not getting any. Those were the discrepancies that the Committee saw. The Committee visited a project where there was an NGO that had a partnership with the NYDA and other stakeholders. They were doing very well. The NYDA just needed to follow on up the things those people were doing. The NYDA needed to assist and support the Mpumalanga office. The young people there were struggling with substance abuse and living on the streets. There was a good programme there. The NYDA needed to see how best it could assist those young people. The NYDA could create a legacy project that helped young people. The Committee was very happy.

The Chairperson told the Director-General that the Committee was not impressed with the work that was done by the Department in terms of the sanitary pads programme. The Committee would discuss it in more detail on Friday because it needed the Deputy Director-General in charge of that to come and account. That programme would lead the Government to litigation. The NYDA was doing good work in Mpumalanga.

The Chairperson thanked all the officials who were present in the oversight visits that the Committee did. The officials there were able to assist young people who needed help from the NYDA. The Committee had read the NYDA’s APP. There was not much to complain about regarding the APP. The NYDA was doing very well. She thanked the NYDA for listening to the advice of the Committee and implementing all the recommendations that were made. The Committee was impressed. The NYDA was doing very well. The Chairperson handed over to the NYDA to make the presentation.

Briefing by the National Youth Development Agency on their Annual Performance Plan and Budget for 2023/24

Ms Luwaca thanked the Chairperson for the words of encouragement. The NYDA would commit to ensuring that the good work seen in Mpumalanga would cascade to the other eight provinces. The NYDA hoped that when the Committee did oversight visits to the other provinces that it would have a good story to tell as well. She noted that this was the board’s first physical interaction with the Committee, after being a year in office. The NYDA hoped that the presentation would re-encourage young people and showcase that the agency was committed to the work that had been given to it, in so far as assisting young people and elevating unemployment, inequality, and poverty. The presentation would cover the salient points that the NYDA was requested to speak on, which was the revised strategic plan. It would also focus on the year 2022/23. The presentation would discuss human resources, marketing, and visibility, as well as financial matters. The presentation would try to capture and encapsulate the inputs made by Members in the previous engagements. The NYDA hoped that what was presented would showcase that the agency was a listening agency and that it was an agency that took constructive criticism. Where it could improve its world, it would redirect its energy toward that. The ultimate goal was to change the material conditions of young people.

Mr Waseem Carrim, Chief Executive Officer, NYDA, briefed the Committee on the NYDA Annual Performance Plan 2023/24. The presentation discussed the NYDA’s objectives, the poverty and unemployment rates increasing, and the four types of intervention.

Mr Siyabonga Mbambo, Executive Director: Operations, NYDA, briefed the Committee on the strategic overview section of the presentation. The strategic overview discussed the NYDA’s strategy, and the programmes and targets.

Ms Culita Mhlongo, Acting Chief Financial Officer, NYDA, briefed the Committee on the 2023/24 Budget. The NYDA was allocated an additional R200 million in 2022/23 and R250 million in 2023/24 for implementation of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention National Youth Service This has created more than 50 000 job opportunities since the 2022/23 financial year. Post the COVID-19 pandemic, the Agency was still feeling the effects of the budget cuts implemented across sectors of Government, resulting in the 2023/24 budget allocation remaining at 0.38% increase when compared to prior year’s allocation of R481 million.

The presentation noted the legislative processes concerning the NYDA. The NYDA Bill was now with Parliament. The Status of Youth Report and the second progress report for the Integrated Youth Development Strategy were completed and ready for presentation.

The presentation highlighted the new priorities and key priorities. The NYDA was prioritizing the establishment of a radio program that will be far-reaching and will focus on expanding the opportunities for youth, women, and persons with disabilities. The NYDA was working on high-priority sectors for a skills revolution in the automotive, oceans economy, and creative arts sectors. The NYDA would be hosting the BRICS Youth Summit in July 2023. DIRCO has shown interest in supporting NYDA’s proposition for a BRICS Youth Secretariat and processing it through the SHERPA for endorsement by the Ministers of Youth and the Heads of State. This was a huge opportunity for the Youth Secretariat to become a structure of BRICS like the New Development Bank and the BRICS Business Council and to be headquartered in South Africa, which can unlock benefits across employment, education, skills, and research.

Discussion

Ms N Sharif (DA) said that the Committee looked at three different APPs. It looked at the APPs of the Department, the CGE, and the NYDA. Going through the NYDA’s APP was really good. The targets were smart. The way the outputs of the targets were linked to numbers was very professional. She commended the NYDA on the format and layout of its APP. The APP of the NYDA outshone the Department. It was good to see that the NYDA had increased its targets. It was one thing to outperform targets, but it was another thing to measure accordingly. She wanted more information about the targets that had been removed. What were some of the continuity of those targets? Did the targets just come to an end? Or was there a process that enabled that work to continue? One thing the Committee picked up related to the finding allocation sourcing target. There were different amounts for different quarters. There was R50 million in the one quarter and then R250 million in the next quarter and then there was another R50 million in the other quarter. Why was it separated in such big increments? Why was it not separated into R50 million per quarter, which would make up to R200 million moving forward? How were the targets set up and how would they be achieved? She noted that there were no targets around the board. There was no tracking or assessment or KPIs to track governance. The Committee should recommend that on a quarterly basis that the board report on the work that they did in provinces. It needed to include budget costs as well as expenditure and budget implications. This was necessary for the Committee to do oversight, monitor and evaluate the work of the board. She had checked and there were three board members not present in the meeting. The Committee had only received apologies from two. She wanted Ms Luwaca to inform the Committee where the third board member was and why they felt it was not necessary to provide an apology to the Committee.

She addressed the Department. It was concerning with the Department tried to piggyback on the work that the NYDA did. She wanted to caution the Department. The Department only had four KPIs that dealt with young people, and most of them were reports generated. One of that was oversight of the NYDA. The Committee would address this with the Department when it presented its APP. The Committee did not think that was a smart KPI, because it seemed as if the Department wanted to take the job of the Committee.

She discussed the advocacy done by the NYDA. She noted Mr Carrim’s example of higher education and the dropout rate. That was the type of the Department should be doing. The Department should be doing that kind of advocacy and ensuring that young people lived in a safe country that had economic opportunities for them to live better lives. This was the type of advocacy work that the Department should be doing. It should not be the NYDA that had to lobby with DIRCO and SAPS for the safety of young women travelling abroad. It should not have to be the NYDA that speaks to higher education to look at the dropout rates for young people. That should be the job of the Department. The NYDA had its own mandate, APP, and KPIs. It was a concern of hers that oftentimes it felt like the NYDA was doing the work that should be done by the Department.

She discussed the allocation for the PYEI/NYS. This was the last year that the NYDA would be getting the transfer of R250 million. What happened moving forward? Had the NYDA looked at it? Had the NYDA added it to its projections? Had the NYDA included it in its plans? How would this affect the output of the NYDA? She requested from the NYDA a report or presentation on donor funding. Who were they? What were the MOUs and SLAs? She noted that R112 million was a lot of money. For the Committee to do proper oversight on the expenditure and income of the money, it would need that information. Who were they? What did they do? What was the collaboration like? She noted that sometimes officials were so used to using acronyms in their reports. The report contained a list of acronyms. It made it difficult for her to assess who the donors were because the names were abbreviated. She reminded the NYDA that the APPs, once approved, were open. It was available for people to read and know what Departments were doing. It had to be easy to understand. If abbreviations were used too often in the reports then the Members were often lost in the information. It needed to be ensured that people understood what the NYDA was doing.

She discussed branding and why it was important for the NYDA to increase its brand recognition. The NYDA needed to put up signage at its offices. When the Committee went to Mpumalanga the first thing she noticed was that there was no signage. How were people going to know that that was an NYDA office or where the NYDA offices were? She did raise it immediately when she got into the office. These were the sort of things that should also be budgeted for and increased in all regional offices. The young people needed to know where to find the offices. She asked the NYDA to please put up signage in its offices so that young people knew where to come when they needed assistance. She commended the work of the NYDA in terms of the numbers they were putting forward regarding the outreach of beneficiaries. The more young people that the NYDA could assist, the better. It was important that the range of the NYDA was as far and wide as possible, and that now only a few select people were only benefiting. How was it ensured that the same people were not getting assisted continuously? How could the NYDA make its range bigger so that more people could be assisted? She noted the one beneficiary the Committee visited in Mpumalanga. With the amount of money being spent on one person the NYDA could probably assist five other young people to improve their lives. Often times young people did not need a lot. They just needed a start-up. They had the passion, talent and hard work ethic in order to make their lives successful. The NYDA just needed to assist them in the beginning.

Ms Phiri said that she was concerned with the board members. She was observing the board members. Ms Pearl Pillay was no longer in the meeting. It was concerning. The NYDA was supposed to be presenting to the Committee as a team, but they were leaving one by one. It meant that the board members had other commitments. The board members needed to prioritise the Committee. The Committee was not going to accept the behaviour of the board members. The Chairperson had raised a critical point on the board members. It was important to emphasise how Ms Luwaca treated each of the board members. There was a board member that was always on tour. There might be a bit of a problem that the Committee was not aware of. She was concerned over the board. The board members just did as they wished. Maybe it was Ms Luwaca that was not holding the centre. She noted that she had another meeting to attend but that she prioritised this one. She noted that there were board members who had left the meeting for more than 30 minutes at a time. It was unacceptable. The board needed to present to the Committee clear targets and an indication of how they were working. The Committee needed to have a monitoring tool. The board needed to present the Committee like they were presenting an APP. It needed to detail the work of the board. There needed to be clear indicators of how the board was going to operate amongst themselves across the country. That was one thing that was missing. She noted that there was good work being done by the administration, by the CEO. The work of the administration spoke for itself. However, the Committee was concerned about the work of the board members. The Committee only saw the board members going on international trips. The board members needed to share with the young of South Africa the experienced gained from international trips. The Committee was not seeing that. How would the NYDA balance what it had learned from other countries and implement it in South Africa? The programmes needed to be championed by board members. The Committee had not seen board members championing and trying to implement programmes.

She discussed how the NYDA worked with the Department. There was a programme two years ago on small businesses that involved women. What were the initiatives that the NYDA had advocated for young people, in particular young women? There were good things that the NYDA was doing but it was not putting it into print form. There were different programmes that the Director-General had told the Committee. She noted that there could be more initiatives for young women in rural areas to do better. In rural areas, there was a lot of land where young people could be encouraged to go and plant different crops or farm livestock. How could the NYDA use what it had learnt in Turkey and other countries to implement those programmes? Young people needed to play a very vital role in creating jobs and employing themselves. The presentation spoke about regulatory burdens that did not support small businesses. What were those specific regulatory burdens that did not support small businesses? The reason why she asked this question was because the Members of the Committee wanted to know how to assist the NYDA to remove the burden.  The Committee would try to lobby its colleagues, take the matter to the National Assembly, and debate about it. The obstacles that stopped young people from achieving what they wanted to achieve needed to be taken away regarding small businesses. The Committee wanted to understand the regulator’s burdens.

The presentation highlighted the six values of the NYDA. One of the values that were critical was accessibility. When the NYDA measured these six values, did it see itself as being accessible? How did the NYDA measure its values? Was it halfway there? Were the values just there to impress the Committee? Were the values practical? All the Members of the Committee agreed that accessibility to the NYDA’s services was a problem. How would the NYDA make an improvement in terms of its own values?

She discussed the BRRR. The presentation noted that young people were part of the 4IR generation. The Committee had raised that before. How would the 4IR be realised while there were still villages that did not have network coverage? What were the strategies that the NYDA had in its programmes to make sure each and every corner of the country had access to network coverage? There were many children who could not access network coverage. How did the NYDA interpret the 4IR that it had spoken about in the presentation? She discussed the NYDA’s APP targets. She wanted the NYDA to explain it better.

She highlighted targets three and four. Was it not a duplication? Was the NYDA not counting the same beneficiaries twice? She needed clarity regarding targets three and four. Was there no duplication regarding the counting twice of numbers? She asked if the Committee could be given each service area on those targets. She wanted to know the allocation provincially for each target. The report needed to be holistic for the Committee to understand. What was the monitoring tool used for the NYDA’s targets? How did the NYDA monitor its targets, specifically targets three and four? How did the NYDA monitor other sector departments in line with programme three and four? The NYDA had a role with the Department to monitor other sector departments. How would the NYDA access the effectiveness of the market linkages and mentorship programme?

Ms N Tarabella-Marchesi (DA) said that when the Committee came across an entity that was doing its work then the Committee automatically wanted to give them more work because the entity was doing well. She discussed the value chain and the ecosystem. It all depended on all the different Departments working together. That made it difficult for the NYDA. The NYDA dealt with issues of education, telecommunications, and even immigration. She noted how central the NYDA was in assisting with the challenges facing the country, specifically unemployment. She discussed education. The NYDA needed graduates and those who completed high school to be employable. The NYDA needed to skill them for them to go to get employment. A problem in the country was that not even the TVET colleges were able to produce the kind of students that were employable. That was another challenge for the NYDA. The NYDA’s main role was to ensure that young people ended up at work. Where did the NYDA come in when it came to capacitating and training to ensure that young people found work? How did the NYDA work with different Departments to ensure that they absorbed those young people who were looking for work? That was one area that NYDA needed to strengthen. It needed to make sure that it did not work in a silo. Often entities and Departments worked in silos. Therefore, no one knew who was doing what. She noted that the military and health could open a lot of opportunities. They did not need to be skilled, but they could assist in hospitals and clinics. Was the NYDA able to collaborate with the different Departments to ask how they could assist in absorbing young people? The country could not shy away from the fact that there were 11 million young people who were unemployed. When the NYDA was able to place 60 000 people into work opportunities, that was a drop in the ocean. That would not be able to tackle the 11 million unemployed. For the NYDA to take the 11 million it needed to have good collaboration with the different Departments. The NYDA should have a relationship with the different Departments.

The presentation spoke about the overregulation of the business sector. The NYDA said that it stifled job creation. What was it specifically that did that? The Committee needed an understanding of what prevented the NYDA from doing its work. When the NYDA was talking about overregulation, what was it talking about? Had the NYDA enquired about how Government could alleviate the red tape? The Committee needed to have more understanding of the matter. Then maybe the Chairperson could talk to the relevant Departments that were stifling or overregulating.

The presentation compared South Africa to middle-income countries. The presentation noted that middle-income countries were doing better than South Africa. The presentation went on to discuss Turkey, Mexico, and Brazil. It did not mention the countries that were within Africa. Why was that? Was the NYDA able to compare how South Africa was doing with unemployment to other African countries? If there were countries doing well, had the NYDA done a study tour to find out how they did that? It was interesting that the NYDA did not use consultants. That was a huge achievement because many Departments utilised consultants. How was the NYDA able to do its work without consultants? She had been in Parliament since 2014 and every time a Member asked why a Department was using consultants the response was that the Department had to use consultants. Why was the NYDA not using consultants? It was a good thing because there were a lot of fees that went towards consultation.

She discussed slide 46 of the presentation. It discussed the number of organisations and Departments lobbied to implement the NYS. Looking at the figures given, the numbers were increasing. Yet, the number of young people that were participating in the NYS Expanded Volunteer Project was decreasing. What was the reason for that?

She discussed the number of young people securing paid service opportunities on slide 47. There were no targets for 2024/25 and 2025/26. What was the reason for that? She was not sure if the NYDA could pre-empt what the target for the number of young people that have completed planned service activities would be. She discussed the private funding that the NYDA received from donors. The NYDA said that it believed it could raise R50 million in the first quarter and R150 million in the second quarter. The other amount was R150 million. She did not understand why it was not consistent. What influenced that? She discussed the NYDA’s cannabis report. If the NYDA had that, could it provide the cannabis report to the Committee?

Ms M Khawula (EFF) spoke in isiZulu (5:01:50 – 5:05:05)

A Member of the Committee said that the CEO spoke about Youth Month in Bloemfontein. Had the CEO not engaged the Minister to take it to remote rural areas? Young people in rural areas also needed to be involved in Youth Month. She discussed the issue of disabled people being employed. The numbers were very low. She noted BBBEEE. Did the NYDA provide awareness for Black people to be placed in employment? How many disabled people had businesses?

The Chairperson discussed communication, marketing, and branding. The NYDA needed to utilise the radios to reach out. The NYDA needed to get a slot on SABC and all channels. She asked the NYDA to reach out to many young people who were living with a disability. She noted that the NYDA could provide awareness at various institutions, including TVET colleges, and universities. The NYDA should try its level best to reach out to as many people as possible.

The NYDA should come to the Committee with a draft plan for board members. The report should detail the performance of the board members linked to the targets that the NYDA had quarterly. That was the only way of making the other board members perform. The NYDA needed to come up with a plan, that way it could report on the activities of the board. Some of the board members were doing a lot of work. However, it was better if the work of the board members was structured. The NYDA should present a report quarterly on the performance of all board members. The NYDA could request a spot to present to the Committee.

The Chairperson was worried about time. The NYDA could respond to the questions of Members in writing. The NYDA could furnish the Committee with written responses, rather than rushing the responses. The Members had to attend Plenary at three. The CEO could give the Committee a written report.

Ms Tarabella-Marchesi noted the Chairperson spoke about the sector where the NYDA would be employing many young people. Which sector was that? Was it formal or informal employment? How many were many? She asked for the NYDA to provide the Committee with a figure.

The Chairperson said that she saw in Gauteng the NYDA said it would employ 6000 young people from TVET colleges, to help with the installation of solar panels. She asked the NYDA to check how it participated in that space.

Mr Carrim responded to the question of Ms Tarabella-Marchesi. It was Global Business Services. There were a lot of international companies who were investing in setting up call centres, data processing centres in South Africa. On 12 May, there would be a recruitment drive for 1000 young people for eight international business process outsourcing companies. It would be happening at Athlone Stadium in the Western Cape. He invited the Members to attend. The NYDA would do one every quarter for 1000 new young people.

The Chairperson said that the Members were free to see the other NYDA projects happening in the Western Cape. The Chairperson thanked the Members, the NYDA, and the Department. The NYDA had seven days to respond in writing to the questions of the Members.

The meeting was adjourned.

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