Hon Speaker, if you would allow me, let me take another look at those five main promises from government in the Youth Employment Accord. The first one is to create work exposure for young South Africans. There has actually been some achievement, but it happened in a programme that doesn't appear in the youth accord, the youth wage subsidy, something that hon Manamela said that he is firmly opposed to. Perhaps that's why he is not in the House. The 56 000 beneficiaries in the youth wage subsidy are a drop in the ocean when you consider the 218 000 young people who became unemployed while the ANC was fighting about the youth wage subsidy.
In the second area, education and training, the Deputy President said nothing about the fact that 20 out of the 50 FET colleges and eight out of 21 sector education and training authorities, SETAs, had to be placed under administration in the past three years.
The last three proposals are interventionist, distortionary and entirely inconsistent with the National Development Plan, NDP, and that is the youth brigades, youth target set-asides and youth co-operatives. It is probably a good thing that there hasn't been any implementation with regard to these three. Will the Deputy President accept that the Economic Development department, EDD, has now released six accords that have not created a single job and that the Youth Employment Accord has been a complete failure? Thank you.