The Department of Home Affairs would as of later this year employ up to 10,000 young people at Home Affairs offices as part of its new digitization project.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the initiative would see the Department recruit and train unemployed graduates to provide their assistance, to help speed up the digitization process.
The Minister says the project will run over a 3-year period, effective from November 2022 until October 2025.
He says candidates will receive on-the-job training.
Motsoaledi says the Department has more than 350 million Civic paper records relating to birth, marriages, deaths, and amendments.
He says the document date back to 1895 which necessitates care and reliable systems.
These records are in all provinces and the bulk of which are in Gauteng, North West, and the Western Cape.
The project will run over a three-year period, effective from November 2022 until October 2025.
Successful youth will be paid a stipend ranging from R5 000 for entry-level positions to R9 500 for Technical Support level positions and R14 250 for Manager level positions.
This cohort will be required to sign a three-year contract linked to the duration of the project.
He says the candidates will be recruited through collaboration with the Department of Employment and Labour and will take place in three passes:
Phase 1 – will see the recruitment of the first intake of 2 000 unemployed youth graduates. The adverts for this phase will be available from 12 August 2022. This cohort will assume duty on 1 November 2022.
Phase 2 – will see the further recruitment of 4 000 unemployed youth graduates. The adverts for this phase will be placed during October 2022. This cohort will assume duty in January 2023.
Phase 3 – will see a further and last recruitment of 4 000 unemployed youth graduates. The adverts for this phase will be placed during December 2022 and January 2023. This cohort will assume duty in April 2023.
Read the Minister’s full statement here.
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[STATEMENT] Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi on the recruitment of 10 000 unemployed youth graduates to join the digitisation project of home affairs records https://t.co/UrRA9K4lUE pic.twitter.com/bb0vg0PlEh
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