National Council of Provinces Virtual Ministerial Briefing Session: Advancing Our Collective Interventions to Address Youth Unemployment and Poverty


Date:TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST 2021
TIME:10h00 - 16h00
Venue:Virtual (Zoom)

Session One
Programme Director: Honourable Ms SE Lucas, MP
Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP

08h30-10h00

Connection and testing

10h00–10h10

Opening Remarks: The urgent need to address youth poverty and unemployment in South Africa
Hon. Mr NA Masondo, MP
Chairperson of the NCOP

10h10–11h10

Ministerial Briefing Session on Youth Poverty and Unemployment: Interventions to Address Youth Unemployment and Poverty

10h10–10h30

Overview of interventions, policies and programmes to address youth poverty and unemployment   
Honourable Ms M Nkoana-Mashabane, MP 

Minister in the Presidency: Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities 
10h30–10h50

Youth employment 
Honourable Mr T T Nxesi, MP

Minister of Employment and Labour
10h50–11h10

Youth poverty 
Minister A T Didiza, MP

Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
11h10–13h00

Questions and ministerial responses

ALL

13h00-13h30

BREAK

Session Two
Programme Director: Honourable Mr AN Masondo, MP
Chairperson of the NCOP

13h30-17h40

Progress in Provincial and Municipal Interventions to Address Youth Poverty and Unemployment

13h00-13h40
13h40-13h50
13h50-14h00
14h00-14h10
14h10-14h20
14h20-14h30
14h30-14h40
14h40-14h50
14h50-15h00
15h00-15h10

Eastern Cape: Honourable Premier LO Mabuyane
Free State: Honourable Premier SH Ntombela
Gauteng: Honourable MEC AP Lesufi
KwaZulu-Natal: Honourable Premier S Zikalala
Limpopo: Honourable MEC TA Mokone
Mpumalanga: Honourable MEC PV Mkhatshwa
North West: Honourable MEC Ms KN Mosenogi
Northern Cape: Honourable Premier Dr S Saul
Western Cape: Honourable MEC S Fernandez
SALGA Representative: Cllr J Sidell

Session Three
Programme Director: Honourable Mr AJ Nyambi, MP
NCOP House Chairperson: Committees and Oversight

15h10-15h50

Questions & executive responses 
ALL

15h50-16h00

Closing remarks: The urgency to sustain our decisive national interventions to Address Youth Unemployment and Poverty
Honourable Mr S J Mohai, MP
Chief Whip of the NCOP

END