Most of the 28 youths who addressed President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is campaigning in the Western Cape this week, raised their frustrations about the lack of jobs.
Soon after a company was appointed to partner PetroSA in a R21bn deal it's politically connected owner, Lawrence Mulaudzi, started scrambling to find entities with the requisite technical and financial capacity to execute the huge project.
Some civil society organisations have formed a crisis committee to help resolve governance problems in Johannesburg and is calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene to save the city from coalition chaos.
The number of government employees earning more than R1m per year has increased from 10,000 to 55,000 in the past 10 years, the medium-term budget policy statement revealed on Wednesday.