National Youth Commission White Elephant

The National Youth Commission would be effective if it wasn't lead by an ANCYLese-speaking, incompetent, blithering idiot like Jabu Mbalula. The Sunday Times spurred debate this week about this ivory tower of an institution.

On MetroFM's only current affairs talk show, the fool who claims to be speaking and working on behalf of South African youth couldn't even quote unemployment statistics of South African youth; when asked to recap the success of some recent long-named initiative of theirs, he had the audacity to reveal that the 100 young people benefited from the programme- one hundred!?!

One man called into the show to point out that South African youth know nothing about the Youth Commission or the Umsobomvu youth fund as organs that can help them, according to a survey he did. The man went on to reveal that only one of the young people he had surveyed knew of the commission, and that the rest of them knew that kwaito star Zola is the only person who could help them in terms of getting a stab at employment and so on.

The point being made by the caller was that the Youth Commission was not visible to the youth and that their publicity channels are out-moded. The idiot Mbalula rebutts the caller by saying that the Commission uses community radio stations as a tool for publicity. Community radio stations? How out-of-touch can you choose to be? All those people who desparately need the help of such organizations are watching SABC1, not listening to struggling radio stations.

Shucks!

My question is how much is this young man being paid for sitting on his laurels, twiddling his thumbs, and dribbling saliva while South African youth who should be benefiting from the treasure he's being paid rot in the townships and rural areas.