Chair, I don't know whether it's absolutely correct for the hon Rev Meshoe to say "notwithstanding the facts". Perhaps the best means of accountability is for youth oversight.
Last Monday, the National Youth Development Agency, NYDA, held a stakeholder forum that was very well attended. The party that the hon Lebenya-Ntanzi represents actually didn't attend it. One of the things decided at that forum was that information centres should become the most important issue.
If one looks at the statistics of young people in South Africa, one of the biggest problems is that, as we sit here now, there are 600 000 young people out there writing their matric and only a very small percentage of them will find employment next year. Accept that as a fact, and don't blame the National Youth Development Agency for it. Try and go back into the education system; look at all manner of issues that ought to prepare young people for absorption into life after school; ask why those things are not there and try and deal with that.
Understand that as an objective constraint in society. Understand that as the biggest challenge that we must all rise to, and don't throw stones at the NYDA. Help them through this because it is an unbelievably difficult and thankless task. Thank you. [Applause.]