Chairperson, I almost said that the hon Mda did not benefit from those programmes.
You see, by law, the National Youth Commission was required to hold those indabas, do the listening and provide a listening post for young people. That is what it set out to do and that is the remit it had. If you thought that would create employment, you were creating expectations that could never be fulfilled.
I happened to be there at the establishment of the Umsobomvu Youth Fund. We secured money from the demutualisation levy and used that to finance it. Over the 10 years of its existence, it used that money very wisely, because it always had to exercise a balance between the available resources and the demand for resources.
I really believe that the annual reports of the Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the commission should be examined and we should look at these issues. You will find that the overheads of the Umsobomvu Youth Fund were actually substantially smaller than its programme spending. It didn't spend on the highfalutin stuff that the hon Mda says it did. I think it's very important that we set the record straight on these matters.
The reasons for merging the Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the National Youth Commission are now well established. We have a new agency. The only appeal I make is: Let's support it. Let's make it work. Let's take democracy into the lives of those young people who need it so that they can understand change in their own lives. Thank you.