The South African Government has announced that 33 young people have been recruited to kick-start its Future of Work ambassador program in the Public Service.
In an address to mark the nation’s Youth Day, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the program would get rid of obstacles that made it hard for young people to work in the public sector.
Administered by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA), Future of Work has been funded for the next 24 months.
“It is hoped that the crop of young people involved will help transform the Public Service into a world-class, modernised model,” Mr Ramaphosa (pictured) said.
“We have identified the need to review systems in the Public Service and how it manages its graduate recruitment program.”
Acting Deputy Director-General for Human Resource Management and Development at the DPSA, Nyiko Mabunda said the new program would help reimagine how the Public Service would be in the future.
“We are thinking in terms of how the Public Service is organised, the service it delivers and the people who must occupy positions to realise a capable and ethical State,” Mr Mabunda said.
“Anyone can be a part of this program as long as they are under 35 and have the skills that we think are relevant to the program, including on innovation and being able to look at data communication sciences, data analysis and so on.”
He said that the Government had also secured a partnership with the United Nations Development Program which would expose the 33 new recruits to Public Service systems across the world with digitisation and modernisation top of mind.
Pretoria, 23 June 2022
