It is too expensive and difficult to hire workers in our country but the wage subsidy would make it cheaper and easier without changing conditions of employment. This is why South Africa's second- biggest trade union federation, Fedusa, does not oppose the subsidy.
At www.youthwagesubsidynow.org, we calculated that the subsidy would already have benefited more than 250 000 people if it had been implemented two years ago. The DA Youth has a simple message for Cosatu: They will not sit back and allow them to hold South Africa to ransom. They will not allow them to kill job opportunities for young people who want to work. They want the youth wage subsidy implemented now. [Applause.]