Home Affairs to begin recruiting 10 000 young IT workers
Kaya 959 Reporter
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has begun the process of appointing 10,000 young IT workers to help speed up the digitisations of its paper records.
The recruitment drive was first raised by President Cyril Ramaphosa during this year’s State of the Nation address.
The Department of Home Affairs has over the year steadily introduced digitisation, in 2016 they began the process of digitising over 280 million records.
The records have since grown to over 300 million records, and include births, deaths, lineage, ID, passports, and migration, dating back to 1895.
In a written response to parliament, Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi said that he anticipates the employment of these young people will commence in May and says the Department is currently waiting for money from the treasury.
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“The department has submitted a bid for funds based on two scenarios which include compensation as well as goods and services as follows: – 24 months: R 2,222,467,100, – 36 months: R 3,249,303,100. “
“The department is awaiting a letter from National Treasury to confirm the allocation for the project,”
“Induction and training will be conducted before actual work is commenced. All 10,000 youth will be appointed at the same time to undertake the initial preparatory work of sorting, sub-sorting, and preparing records for scanning,” said Motsoaledi.
Motsoaledi also mentioned that the recruitment of these young people will stretch far and wide, throughout the corners of South Africa.
“The acquisition process will adopt a blended approach wherein applications are received through walk-in centres, Thusong centres, labour centres and on digital platforms.
“Advertisements will be placed on social media platforms, radio, notices at the Thusong centres, labour centres. Geographic spread representativeness with due consideration to rural areas with little or no smart devices and or connectivity will be ensured,” Motsoaledi said in the written response.” he said.
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