Why Waste Money on Quarterly Labour Force Surveys? Waste It on Youth Development Instead!(Debate) (Report‪)‬

Introduction The memorable words above are those at the head of the budget speech delivered by the Minister of Finance in February 2009. The concern of the present paper is with two 'awkward and deepest truths' the ANC, in government and in conference, chooses not to face. The first is unfortunate--it involves the waste of a probable few hundred million Rands. This is sad but tolerable. The second is less tolerable--involving as it does an extravagant detour in institution-building to tackle youth development issues that could set that cause back by many years.