Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. As the Leader of Government Business, Deputy President Motlanthe must instruct the officials from the Department of Labour and the National Treasury, who represent the government on the youth wage subsidy task team at Nedlac, to ensure that the implementation of the youth wage subsidy is not further delayed by the ideological opposition of Cosatu. Cosatu has opposed the subsidy based on their belief that it will "enrich capitalists and further segment the working class".
This is absurd. The figures speak for themselves. Had the youth wage subsidy been implemented on 1 April ...