Concern over cyber bullying casts shadow over interviews

Mayibongwe Maqhina

The portfolio committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities has expressed its concerns with cyber-bullying meted out against some of the candidates who appeared before it for the interviews of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) board. Last week, the committee conducted interviews with 19 aspirant candidates for the board. Speaking during a meeting of the committee to score the interviewed candidates, chairperson Liezl van der Merwe noted that interviews of some of the candidates were reposted on social media and fun was made of some of the candidates deemed to have not performed well. Van der Merwe said she found the ridiculing to be unfortunate. “It amounts to cyber bullying. It goes against the spirit of what we wanted as this portfolio committee. “We are here to give…

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Star South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2025-03-06

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