Well, I think the fact that it has taken this long to submit the code to Parliament is regrettable. We cannot fudge that part of it, but that is how long democratic processes take. Cabinet had to discuss and debate it and eventually, those discussions were concluded on 4 December last year. So, we have gone past the major hurdle and now we are very close to the tape, as it were. Thank you.
Particulars regarding Government's strategy and actions to tackle youth unemployment
4. Mr K B Manamela (ANC) asked the Deputy President:
While the Government is prioritising the need for urgent action to get more young people into the labour market by creating incentives for absorbing the young unemployed to ensure that unskilled job seekers can gain entry into employment more easily and whereas the Government also acknowledges that, with regard to youth employment and the labour market, programmes should seek primarily to train the youth in developing skills required by the economy and give them the experience to access the formal economy, (a) what is the Government's multipronged strategy to tackle youth unemployment as one of its priorities, (b) what urgent action and extra-ordinary measures have already been initiated that contribute to this and (c) what has been the impact of these measures thus far? NO247E