Question NW2893 to the Minister of Home Affairs
17 October 2023 - NW2893
Roos, Mr AC to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
With regard to the project to employ 10 000 youth to digitise Home Affairs records, what (a) are the relevant details of the location of each office that implemented the project and (b) total number of (i) youth are working on the project and (ii) records have been digitised as at 31 August 2023?
Reply:
(a) The location of each office that has implemented the project is in the attached table marked Annexure A.
(b)(i) The first phase of the project recruited a total of 2000 youth. Of these, some have received other appointments and the number has reduced to 1146. The Department is filling the vacancies. The second phase is to recruit 4000 youth and this recruitment is underway.
(b)(ii) As explained in my previous reply to your question (question 220), the first phase of the digitisation process focused on preparation of records; that is, detailed indexing and condition assessment of records. The second phase which includes full scanning and indexing of records in the production environment started in June 2023 in Gauteng at our New Cooperation Building, Pretoria. As at 31 August 2023, the total number of records that had been digitised are 328 800, inclusive of 3 451 613 images. This performance is far above the target of 12 000 records set for the second quarter (July – September 2023) of the 2023/24 financial year.
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