Hon Chairperson, fellow South Africans, I greet you in the universal greeting of peace, Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Hon President, after in your own words, nine wasted years, last year you addressed this Chamber in your inaugural state of the nation address, at a time where young South Africans could not afford a single further wasted day.
It was an address filled with promises made to a nation desperate for hope, particularly the millions of young South Africans fast becoming a forgotten generation without skills or jobs and set up to fail in our institutions of higher