like the nyda which simply squanders it on festivals and inflated salaries we should be forcing the executive’s hand to implement a youth wage subsidy that can give young people the economic opportunities that they so desperately require it is also concerning to the id that given the desperate situation of so many young people in south africa the ground is fertile for false prophets to emerge instead of offering real hope to young south africans these false prophets are more than willing to polarise our society and offer up populist solutions that will intensify our economic woes rather than alleviate them they will preach revolution while they themselves enjoy conspicuous consumption and benefit from government largesse we must never allow such false prophets to dominate our political discourse or all that we have worked for in constructing a new nonracial and nonsexist south africa which will quickly unravel at this point in our country’s history we need real leadership from the youth that will embody the values of progressive and constructive debate