By Zuko Komisa
In an effort to help with the digitisation of civic paper records, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will post advertisements for 2 000 jobs for unemployed graduates.
On August 11, Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the first cohort would begin working on November 1.
More than 350 million paper civic records, including those for births, marriages, funerals, and amendments, are kept by the department.
Records in this category go back to 1895, thus attention and trustworthy mechanisms are required to assist the digitization procedures.
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All provinces maintain these records, but Gauteng, North West, and the Western Cape hold the majority of them.
“The department is increasingly using technology to improve the way it renders services to the people and to improve the security of our documents.”
“This will be possible through the realisation of the secondary objective of the digitisation project, which seeks to recruit 10 000 unemployed young graduates,”
“The project will run over three years from November to October 2025. Successful applicants will be paid a stipend ranging from R5 000 a month for entry-level positions to R9 500 a month for technical support level positions and R14 250 a month for managerial positions.
This cohort will be required to sign a three-year contract linked to the duration of the project,” Motsoaledi said.
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