Andile Lungisa, the chairman of the National Youth Development Agency, which gets R350-million a year to create opportunities for young people, has threatened to make South Africa "ungovernable" next month because of high youth unemployment.
At the Black Management Forum young professionals' summit in Cape Town on Friday, he attacked the ANC government, young black professionals, African leaders, the DA, Afriforum and the "Stellenbosch mafia".
"In September, we are going to close every street in South Africa. If there is a cheese in your fridge, they are going to take it," Lungisa said.
"On the slowness of government, we will march; we will close all the streets."
Lungisa hit out at white and black professionals, saying: "Those who have hairstyles, those who are wearing ties but not helping their community, will be affected. The white males, they need to be attended [to]."
His remarks came after young black professionals in the audience asked him if the agency gave funding to small businesses, or if that was only "a myth".
Lungisa responded by lashing out at the forum's young professionals provincial leader, Thuso Segopolo, his colleague. Papama Matsiliza, DA youth leader Makashule Gana and Charl Oberholzer, of Afriforum, who had just held a panel discussion on "youth as the epicentre of African development".
Lungisa told them they had been talking about Africa without knowing anything about African Union agreements.
"Most of the panellists are not informed," Lungisa told them. "I must conduct induction and build your capacity."
South Africa's problems were due to the "Stellenbosch mafia", a group of unnamed, wealthy Stellenbosch families, whom Julius Malema blamed last month for creating opposition to nationalisation.
