Dear Editor
The DA Youth is outraged that recent job advertisements by the NYDA are calling for even more staff to serve the private offices of senior Board Member of the NYDA.
NYDA Chairperson, Dr. Sunshine Myende and her Deputy Bonga Makhanya are both recruiting for posts which are nothing more than a duplication of work by others.
This would add another 15 persons to their personal staffing component in their private office.
Even more shocking is how most of these new recruits will do jobs that are already covered by other offices of the NYDA – For instance the office of the Board Chair and Deputy would now have 3 more persons to do media work, over and above the entire Media Office of the NYDA.
It would seem that the entity continues to be oblivious to the plight of young people in this country, as it blows money on staff for Board Members. Millions of young people remain locked out of economic opportunities because money is spent on large office staff complements, rather than on youth development.
This reeks nothing short of a jobs for pals scheme, which has been the modus operandi for previous executives as well.
The DA Youth has written to the DA members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Youth, Women and Persons with Disabilities to implore the Committee to call the NYDA Board to account for this “personal staffing splurge”
They must answer to Parliament:
- Whether all the posts are fully funded, if yes, where did the funding come from in the middle of a financial year?
- What are the salary scales, with specific numbers for each of the posts in question?
- Whether the entity has no permanent internal capacity in any posts and why they fail to have managers and researchers for roles within their mandate?
The DA Youth will not allow a Youth Development Agency to develop it’s own staff, and neglect millions of South African youths at the same time.
Regards
Ndipiwe Olayi
DA Youth Acting Federal Leader