The Department of Home Affairs says it received 439,000 applications for its second round of hiring unemployed IT graduates.
The Department of Home Affairs initiative to hire 10,000 young graduates has created almost 3,700 jobs for unemployed youths since it kicked off in August 2022, with more than 260 leaving for better opportunities.
To this end, 260 of the unemployed graduates who successfully applied and worked for the DHA have already left for better opportunities. “This brings the total number of young graduates employed for the digitisation project close to 3,700.”The initiative aims to employ young graduates, who will help digitise over 350 million civic paper records of birth, marriages, deaths, and amendments, most of which are in Gauteng, the North West, and the Western Cape.
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