Democratic Alliance press statement by Dr Michael Cardo MP DA Shadow Deputy Minister in the Presidency NYDA recruitment drive must be explained to Parliament I will write to the Chairperson of the Public Service and Administration Portfolio Committee, Bertha Peace Mabe, to summon the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) to explain its turnaround strategy; including its plans to reduce the public wage bill. At a time when the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) should be starved of its R400m government grant and scrapped, the agency is embarking on a reckless recruitment drive. Today the NYDA has advertised five posts in the Sunday Times, four of them in a senior management or executive management capacity with salaries of over R800 000 per annum. They include an executive manager of international relations, and a chief information officer with a price tag of over R1 million. This salary splurge is grossly irresponsible. The NYDA should be shut down, not dishing out more lucrative jobs-for-pals. On Wednesday, the Chairperson and the CEO of the NYDA briefed the Portfolio Committee on Public Service on the agencys budget for 2014/15. The budget was opaque, with several line items of expenditure disguised under special projects and the like. When asked for an explanation, the NYDA office-bearers floundered and bumbled. However, what is clear is that over R195m, almost half, of the NYDAs R408m grant is earmarked for salaries. That is almost as much as the entire budget of the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, which is also located in the Presidency and is tasked with the government’s top priority of monitoring the implementation of the National Development Plan. In 2013, the NYDAs former CEO, Steven Ngubeni, earned nearly R2.4m- almost as much as the Deputy President. When asked whether there had been a review of salary scales as part of the NYDAs so-called turnaround strategy, the NYDAs Chairperson, Yershen Pillay, was at a loss for words The DA has long held that the taxpayer should not be expected to finance the NYDAs patronage network of high-flying big earners. It is time for the NYDA to be scrapped.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 10:29:19 +0000
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