This came to light this week as MP voiced their unhappiness at the tardy pace of appointing board members, all thanks to the African National Congress Youth 
League’s infighting for positions, they said.
For the third time, there has been postponement to appoint agency board members, mandated to empower youth’s programmes countrywide.
“We reject the motion. There’s an interim board appointed outside the rules, the Act of the NYDA does not allow that. On many occasions when this parliament is supposed to appoint NYDA board, but because of internal squabbles in the ANC, of deployments, this process has been delayed.
The new ad hoc committee constituted a month ago has not made a quorum, even once,” says Economic Freedom Fighter’s chief whip Floyd Shivambu.
He said the NYDA was being run by an illegal entity “and that is not acceptable” and the postponement was being asked for the third time.
However, ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu had tabled a motion asking the National Assembly to extend the deadline by which the ad hoc joint committee appoints board members to the NYDA to March 31 2017.
The notion was rejected by opposition parties citing interference and appointment for pals by the ANCYL.
DA MP Yusuf Cassim said the first point to note on the appointment of the NYDA board, the process has shown the agency was nothing else but an “employment agency for ANCYL and for the alliance partners”.
“This was made evident when a previous ad hoc committee had appointed board members based on a certain youth league faction. We had countless calls from different factions that said this individual didn’t make it because he does not come from the correct faction.
“We sit in a situation where the time of parliament has been completely wasted and resources have been exhausted,” said Cassim.
IFP youth leader and MP, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, said they had completed the process of interviews and had even short-listed the people for submission to the National Assembly.
“And when the report was ready, things just came to a standstill. Chief whip, you need to crack the whip.
“I honestly believe that we have reached a point where the ANC Youth League must either shape up or ship out.
“We are in this because of the ongoing tensions there about deployment,” said Hlengwa.
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe was also accused –unprocedurally- for appointing interim caretaker to oversee the agency’s functionality
