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** *MEC fails to respond adequately to a ticking time bomb!* 4.4 million South Africans are currently unemployed; 2 million South Africans are permanently discouraged work seekers; 2.1 million South Africans are underemployed; - 61% (2.7 million) officially unemployed South Africans have been unemployed for more than a year; 66% of the unemployed are younger than 35. As the *South African Youth Council in the Western Cape* we wish to express our disappointment at the lack of response from the MEC for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism with respect to the Memorandum handed over to the HOD for Economic Development and Tourism on Thursday, 7th July 2011 at provincial parliament. It is our understanding that the HOD was tasked to accept the Memorandum on behalf of the MEC, due to illness. We note with concern that the HOD has responded to the Memorandum marked for the attention of the MEC. The duty to facilitate public involvement has to be discharged by the MEC as the political office bearer. It is SAYC’s view that MEC Winde has not seen it fit to respond to our "Jobs for Youth" Memorandum. South Africa’s constitutional democracy is representative and participatory in its nature. The representative aspect embraces multi-party democracy, achieved through regular elections based on a common voters’ roll and proportional representation. However it goes further than regular elections every five years in that it guarantees involvement of each citizen in public life in between elections. To this extent public participation is an integral part of any democracy that is accountable, responsive and open. This provides credence to our long held view that the Political leadership in the province is not interested in Youth Development nor are they prioritising it as dictated by the National Youth Policy. As SAYC we reject the response from the HOD for Economic Development and Tourism and once again call on the MEC to respond to the Memorandum. As we believe that the state is backtracking from its initial promise of ensuring skills development and quality employment. Therefore on Saturday, 30th July 2011 youth structures and formations in the province will be marching to parliament to take our provincial concerns to a national platform Yours in Youth Development Thembinkosi Josopu SAYC Western Cape Chairperson 0715833011 *[email protected]* <[email protected]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is subject to the Telkom SA electronic communication legal notice, available at : http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
