Cape Town - The City of Cape Town has been struggling to fill over 3 000 vacancies because of a scarcity of certain skills in the market. According to the City’s financial performance report, the actual expenditure on salary-related costs amounted to R411 million, compared to the year-to-date budgeted provision of R432m.
The under expenditure is mainly due to the turnaround time in filling vacancies and the impact of the process. In its financial monitoring report, the City’s finance directorate reported 175 vacancies in various stages of the recruitment and selection process; 82 positions were filled and 33 terminations processed since the beginning of the financial year.
Mayco member for corporate services Sharon Cottle said: “The City is fully committed to managing sustainable staffing levels necessary to ensure service delivery and, to this end, the vacancy rate is a key performance indicator both in the service delivery budget delivery plan as well as the executive director’s performance scorecard.
NormanRenier Not surprising. Skills-drain out of SA = due to economic & political landscape. WC can remedy this in very short time - expats have hopes of WC secession & change as proposed by the Cape Party to remove political power & end looting of taxes by the ANC:
You mean there are not enough white people right?
They should pay more to cover the extreme cost of housing
Sweet_StuffB
Mention the skills needed and the positions. People with degrees are unemployed. Experienced educated people are getting retrenched. Stop insulting our intelligence.
Unathi_Kwaza The headline is wrong. They have 3000 vacancies, SOME of which are about critical skills. Read the article. IOL again... As for black pple not wanting to go there, blacks ppl are going there in masses. Least unemployment as a fact.
Unathi_Kwaza Every province has official languages. WP is Afr, Eng, isiXhosa. Must be able to communicate with the citizens.
CityofCT I for one have done all requirements, registered on website etc ,been applying for the last 8 years, went to one assessment in that time and I'm an experienced town planner. Imagine
We know who the ideal candidate is in this area.The problem is as the most qualified/educated minority, they not gonna do it for those salaries.Also,when you have land and secured intergenerational socio-economic status, the urgency isn't there bantase. Caucacity isnt about th.
Unathi_Kwaza Scarce Skills = Something that does not start with BA. Think Technology, Engineering, Finance.
Having Afrikaans as a requirement to get a job is discriminatory and should be addressed by the minister of labor through specific amendments to the Labor relations Act as soon as yesterday.
So y’all really gonna act like white people are the only ones speaking Afrikaans? 🙄😴😴 Lord, save the ignorant and foolish
No scarce at all they just don't want to hire blacks!! Mxm
The comments on this post show why South Africa will always be a 3rd rate country! Whites this, whites that...are you that retarded that you don't know the demographics of Cape Town? I'm going to hazard a guess and say the majority of people speaking Afrikaans are not white!
In Cape Town for you to get a decent job, you have to be fluent in Afrikaans and of you are black and fluent in Afrikaans, they will question you proximity from work or if you hve a car. It is not the City of Cape Town only, even some major companies. Racism live in this city.
Lies! They want them 'bilingual'
This thing of white people not liking school or education is catching up with them..... Their lack of education has resulted in positions reserved for them called scarce skills.. Whites lack of education = Scarce Skills
Ask them to list the vacant posts on a public platform not only in cigar lounges at Newlands & posh country clubs
With so many unemployed qualified graduates why aren't they considering grooming them towards bridging that skills gap? There's never strategic thinking when it comes to our Government. I bet they haven't even thought of what skills set they will require 10 years from now🤔
MarvinCharles17 CityofCT I have submitted so many applications and have received no response. Was called for about 3 interviews and the rest are 'In Process' for a hood year or so... And I have a scarce skill with experience... And i live in Cape Town
Sounds like many are commenting on the headlines and not the article. 1) This is IOL story. Those who know IOL would understand why 2) The article was inconsistent when it comes to quoting. Any matured reader must be suspicious.
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It's really hard here we're in War with whites and Coloureds kuyanyiwa
I am here, what do you need?
Wonder if the scarce skill has anything to do with speaking Afrikaans...
What skills are they lacking in this pool of unemployed graduates?
What are those skills exactly that stops the City of Cape Town to fill the vacancies, maybe I am sitting with a couple of them here in Dusty Rusty?
Which skills specifically?
White South Africans Are The Most Uneducated People In South Africa...They Hide Behind Their White Early Ageing Skin😂😂😂
Yitsho Afrikaans speakers!!
They must just hire skilled foreigners.
MarvinCharles17 CityofCT my husband (Supply Chain) and I (Marketing/Business Strat) are both highly skilled, vastly experienced and ready to relocate immediately. Where do we apply?
No the people that are looking for are not qualified.....Lots of them in CPT but they not the colour they looking for 🙌
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I'm interested to know what are these scarce and critical skills they speak of...
Just because do t have cars and can't speak Afrikaans you saying scarce skills 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
City of Cape Town is really disgusting, y'all really pay graduates a stipend of R3k as interns, no guarantee that you will get a permanent job, yet you require so much from candidates. Also so many black people with '' required skills'' have been applying with no luck, yikes
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Kak praat !! Tsek
Not true, they've implemented a complex job application system that discourages job seekers.
Seriously, how scarce can those skills be? Put a list out and let the public help you source them.
What are those scarce skills? they don't require matric🙄 then skin colour mybe a problem in da republic of Cape Town.
That’s totally utter rubbish, there is thousands of unemployed black graduates.
Mnxim bubuvuvu bembudede ke obu shame
They're at again sounds about white!
Totally unfair to most black graduates like myself. In order to be viewed as eligible for these vacancies in Cape Town, you have got to be either white or colored and fluent in Afrikaans.
Take away the Afrikaans language criteria and you will see
The article is very empty though, it's not properly researched. It's a summary and a statement, it lacks meat. Which skills are scarce, what levels, etc. Seems like the article's intent was for click bate.
I am still searching high and low for a Quantity surveying job in capetown Ranking 4th on those Scarce skills hireagraduate CityofCT I have 3 years work experience and qualified to practice as a health and safety officer from NOSA. Please retweet.
What scarce skills are those?
I am still searching high and low for a Quantity surveying job in capetown Ranking 4th on those Scarce skills hireagraduate I have 3 years work experience and qualified to practice as a health and safety officer from NOSA. Please retweet.
Mxm
I can tell u that most whites n coloureds in corporate dont even have a matric and will stifle u if they feel threatend...It's all a game I guess.🤦♀️
Ive hit the phone on recruiters when they say Im too expensive .I've fought politics with a smile n left with whole teams .My advantage was that I fit in both worlds black enough to convince blacks to jumpship but coconut enough to convince the white kids to jumpship too.
What a joke 😏🙄
I live in Cpt and I earn a white salary ....Managed to buy myself a town house( They expensive here)... in southern suburbs before 30 and buy an suv by age 27...How I did it.I job hopped like no ones business.
This is absurd..... So many skilled people unemployed graduates out there why they don't advertise the posts abd employ people? This is total rubbish they corrupt and selfish.
Peterman43 Target market is not interested
No shit 😂🤣
The afrikaners did not apply in numbers so u are making them aware of this opportunities yah neh n u find stupid black Da members talking good abt this gogos racist party
They just need to tell the truth about who they want to employ. Im pretty sure thousands of people applied and never even got a rejection confirmation. Ive applied on numerous occasions, have over 17 years experience and never even got a reply back. Not sure wu they want🤷
Rubbish
Guess they're out of white matriculants, they'll consider white highschool dropouts before going for black graduates
Bayaxoka, akholonto apha.
On a separate note but the valid license and own transport requirements for a job in a country where about 50% of youths are unemployed is an insane requirement. But I know people that have jobs live in their own bubble
You mean lack of white people?
The last bastion of black hatred
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Ayikho intenjalo zinja
Which positions are those?
EE applies in the city. CMs, WMs are not selected based on skin color Fact
NkgabisengS
They looking for whites, Afrikaans language and whites. We applying but getting nothing
No email etc where does one apply?
Where should we apply?
Could be right. I've been meaning to move that side cause there's alot of opportunities for young qualified product designers/industrial who are in demand week in/week out.
The only thing scarce in CT is common sense among Our_DA COCT. In the meantime Debbie Schaefer WC education MEC gave R41+million of Educ. budget to the provinces safety plan, leaving 6000 kids unplaced in schools due to budget constraints. They're all fishy A.F.🙄
A) The application process is archaic. B) Unnecessary inflated requirements for the role. C) They need everything short of a blood sacrifice for an admin position. D) Nepotism is rife
It’s a lie ... we have enough brilliant minds who can learn and deliver i any skills in the country
I once registered on the CoCT job portal. That thing is from the pits of hell itself. And I'm a technical savvy librarian. I still do not know how I navigated my way around.long story short...I'm still waiting for my password to logon...or something similarly mundane
Are you saying 2500 of those 3000 vacancies are for Astrophysicists? Really?
TheSmartVoice , here!
'Slegs Blankes'
Employ me man
Mxim
HlulaniMgiba
That's because when they call the 'candidates' and it's a missed call they don't call back or even send an email. Mnxim call back abanye abantwana bafuna umsebenzi and it's hard to call COCT back coz it goes straight to switchboard🙄🙄
How come?I’ve applied a few times there,some applications older than 8 months still show ‘in progress’ Its a lie,they just want to appoint who they want,liers!
Yhooo I've been rejected for a trainee position in one of the biggest retailers in the country based in CPT, when I met the requirements and obtained experience. Mxcm
kopano_fanasi
What are those scarce skills?
The responses on here make me laugh in fact have me in hysterics!!! The only metro not financially crippled because it is run well, and all the posters won’t go there because it is run well - I suppose that means that their corruption standards won’t be accepted
but we have alot those people in S.A. mybe thy are looking for color
Bathong.
I just saw Quantity Surveyor on the list and that time I know so many of us unemployed Quantity Surveyors😂😂😂 Wow!
Then Cape Town is a country on its own because there is high unemployment in South Africa... Anyway scarce skills they say!
Being white definitely a scarce skill then.
Sounding just like white corporate SA all over again...
Charles Mopeli Stadium
I am here as Professional Engineering Technician with BTECH: Civil Engineering & Project Management. CityofCT
I see all white people are working in CT
It's becoz most blacks don't speak Afrikaans and don't wanna earn peanuts. And those who speak Afrikaans and want to earn peanuts don't have the skills.
Afrikaans is the skill needed
They dont wanna pay for the skills
The we cry of unemployment?
Let's see now. A R21 M under expenditure and 3 000 vacancies as the cause. An average of R 8.4 k/vacancy/year. What is do scarce about the skills required to work for that tiny salary? Or got it wrong, as usual...
AdvBMkhwebane your people
What scarce skills?
Yho you guys, hire people and train them tuu
They don't want to hire Africans, all whites are employed in Cape Town.. So we all need to wait for Johann Ruperts and those Stellenbosch Mafias including helenzille to die before Africans can get employed..? All whites in Cape Town are uneducated Domkops who only know racism😑
To think i always apply for positions with my Governance and Political Transformation drgree
They are lying they want whites for those jobs
CityofCT jsteenhuisen helenzille advertise those posts and allow even people outside CT to apply. We ready to serve our country amidst the high rate of unemployment. Where can I send my CV with immediate effect?
lies
Interest article and very interesting comments.
Ngoba bafuna abelungu😏
Look closely at the picture. These folks don't need to work, generational wealth works for them.
It’s due to racism and the fact that Cape Town is so slow nobody ever stays here for too long... lastly it’s hard to even get a booking at a restaurant let alone a job!!! Restaurants always reserved for “regulars”
Tosh
Scarce skills ngoMasipala nje uwodwa? I drama leyo. Many African kids have those skills. Akungadlalwa ngathi size sibone.
And when people from other countries go there to fill up those vacancies they start killing them.?
How come while we have competent people
Bumenemene!
Train us bathong. Give bursaries for those careers. Expose those opportunities to high school learners. There are so many people who need jobs bathong.
I wonder how this research was conducted to conclude with such a narrative 😒
Yeah we all know what this means 🙄🙄
Migrants got them skills but.........never mind😶
Racism is not scarce skills
Fuckery!!!!
Yeah becoz they do not consider cvs from blacks
gilberteffu see what I told you fana?
They don't want to hire black graduates. Say it with your chest
Uhm which scare skills are those?
If I may ask what Vaccanvies they have?
To move to Cape Town one needs a Visa.
'must speak Afrikaans'... That's why
It’s the republic of Cape Town ....a city only meant for the rich, white & privileged
Cape Town were Minimum requirement is Racism and afrikaans...Make sense
ntsikimazwai Probably only black people have those skills and they are not being recognized
CapeTown They must stop with their tendencies of asking for 10 years of experience for a junior position.
What scarce skills? I know numerous people, incl. myself, with master's, honours (or BTech) and degrees (or National Diploma), who have been applying for vacancies to the CoCT. Trouble is they: -Are bilingual NOT in Afr and Eng -don't have their own transport -and are not white!!
Lies lies!! Where do they advertise their ads? They want to select their own claiming this nonsense!!!!
It now makes sense, who on earth want to employ a crop of ppl that have a mentality of burning 🔥 everything whenever there's a small issue.
CapeTown Lol is there any credible news agencies anymore
ntsikimazwai What in the fuck are you guys on about?
There will be a struggle if management is incompetent. Most skills can be developed.
It is rather quiet confusing, have you tried recruiting agencies to find candidates or there are some specific preferences ?
Meant for whites only
Has the mothership of white mediocrity run out of unqualified colonizers?
CapeTown What a joke !😂😂😂
You mean scarcity of skills from the race they want to employ Or
If they're referring to this list? Then they should be ashamed of themselves...
What are these scarce skills that are so scarce?
That time they are in the midst of 3 world class universities, a university of technology and a few TVET colleges...this city just don't care.
JeroenSwart If the ANC had only poured money into education in ‘94 and not corrupt arms money, this problem (and more) would be solved.
Can they publish these scarce skills so that we scrutinize it.
Oh really now ?
They use afrikaans as skill thats why
MarvinCharles17 Thanx for the article✌My CPT people need jobs.Where do they go 2 apply ? What qualifications do they need ? I want to share this but dont want to leave my peeps in the dark. More clarity perhaps ?
Just downright lies
Can we see a list of these scarce skills so the people can apply. Where and when they were advised?
ReardonSandra God I wish I was white so that I could fill one of those vacancies. Sitting at home with my National diploma in Human resources management.
ReardonSandra Yeah....no thanks to Apartheid.
Ababhatali
Those vacancies need to be filled by whites, obviously 🤷🏾♂️
Lies
Which skills are those?
Translation: Too many educated Blacks, we shall hold out for more white matriculants.
🤣 They want the posts to be filled by minority white people. Not that there are scared skills. Those whites are not there.
MarvinCharles17 I would be interested to know what exactly the 'implemented .. recruitment and selection turnaround strategy ' is that Sharon Cottle refers to. Is it publicly available to read? Thanks
But the critical scarce skills aren't even mentioned in the article. Not even one... Shady reporting.
This is how they recruit. You don't apply at all, you just register your name, your qualifications and WHERE YOU FROM all this via sms!!! Then you hope you get randomly selected.
Really now?
A Municipality? STRUGGLING TO FIND ENOUGH WHITES TO FILL THE VACANCIES HUH?
We have such low self-esteem in this country. Many first-world countries don't have those scarce skills. It's scare for a reason! I've recently done work where a German software engineer was working in Silicon Valley, USA, with engineers from Asia, the US, etc. working remotely.
MarvinCharles17 What are these skills? Not mentioning them only makes the article kind of pointless.
BS!!!
Msizii_
Joke for the years 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
How cause I've been applying but dololo
mxim city of cape town, people apply than you have to know someone within there to get the job.
Whites lack those skills and they don't want to hire any other race,they are full of shit.
What a useless excuse, mxm
Well number one it's expensive to live in cape town and with unattractive pay packages you'll never fill scarce skills. If you know your skill is scarce one is likely to be more demanding
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CITY we are hear and believe our Degrees are sufficient to serve in the City. CityofCT
It's not about the skills.......its about the color of your skin. There is people out there but the skin color is White.
Mamenemene ndini.
They are lying, they can't fins white people to the vacancies 😂😂😂
N_khathu Lies ! Just say whites don't have the skills they want
Scarce skills or Afrikaans?
Scarce Skills=Whiteness.
Another way of saying *WHITE APPLICANTS ONLY* mxm😑😑
That's bullshit, COC will make you spend money on airtime using their ussd string to answer questions, they will then call you with an 087 number, if you miss the call you have missed out. It's appalling because people have a serious need for work. !
There are unemployed graduates and they're telling us about a lack of skills. They want to deviate 4rm EE and appoint whites
Useless article.
scarce of white skills they meant.
30 % pass mark country
Scarce skills are trainable and attainable through practice.. If you get people with at least a degree and put programmes in place to elevate them this problem won't exist over time
can we have the list...
MarvinCharles17 Hi Marvin, I can relate to this. Give me a shout :-)
I got rejected in some IT company, they said I'm over qualified ..
The lies ! my goodness !
I do not believe the many unemployed graduates and retrenched workers lack those 'Scarce and critical skills', whatever they are.
U mean because of scarce skills amongst the race they wanna hire
How so 😳
'City of Cape town struggling to find more White* people only to fill 3000 vacancies due to lack of skill'.
Because makgoa a tshaba skolo
Can't be.
How? We have so many unemployed?
What are those scarce skills
“We lack skills...” is an exhausted excuse 😒😒
Train job seekers and then hire them.
Publish the positions.
I am not surprised. I worked in Cape Town for a year. I saw and experienced which group of people they prioritize.
You mean they Can't find white people who are qualified for those positions
That’s very strange in a country with huge numbers of unemployment
is 'Fluent in Afrikaans' a skill?
where are the 3000 white people they need?
...and racism
I've been applying to the city for almost 2 years I even get to assessment stage, to show that I have those 'scarce skills' they are looking for but dololo appointment. Ayikho lento
What a stupid story. I had an interest and read because I reckoned it would give examples of the scarce skills they speak of, what are the type of vacancies that cannot be filled when there are so many unemployed graduates, for instance? A silly and dodgy piece.
Specialist Surgeons?
Angithi bafuna i Afrikaans kuma vacancies abo.
Probably requires 20 years experience and fluency in afrikaans
kabelodick K2_metsy
Must be fluent in Afrikaans. Please say it with your chest.
The ugly racist monster is showing its head again, please can someone give the stats of unemployed black graduates in Cape Town?
Nonsense... its because whites dont possess those skills. South Africa is flooding with highly qualified unemployed people
Even if I were offered 100k for one of those vacancies I would never accept it, 1stly because I will never speak nor learn how to Afrikaans and 2ndly the subjected racism in Cape Town is enough to last one for a day.
They are looking for white people to fill those 3000 vacancies .... skills it's just scapegoat not employ Black People
ElanaBrown The problem is that they only targeted white applicant while whites are running their own businesses
Melanin is not what they want, no need to shy away from the truth
they are looking for white people, the question is, as south africans how do we deal with these cape town white people cause nje bayi nkinga
I've been applying non stop from City of Cape Town with no luck, i guess i dont have those skills. How sad
That's what they say when they want to deviate and employ more Europeans.
Scarce skills? Not in a country with 30% unemployment. Job reservation act reincarnated, sounds about white
Cape Town is horrible. The other time a college down there wanted to fill posts and they stated in the advert that they prefer someone who is fluent in 2 official Cape Town languages. I didn't even know CT has official languages.
Scarce skills? A local government municipality? In SA? Kanti what is it that municipality is doing, building space shuttles? They are lying, they can't get as enough Whites as they would like
Madness!
What positions are those?
Be fluent in Afrikaans
Let the people built experience! Employ the people! We learn quick
And the journalist didn't bother to ask about the specific skills that are scarce?
BS
Was hoping to see the list of skills
Lies
the article is rubbish, not once does it mention which vacancies cant be filled...
Job reservations act in a subtle racist way.
njivan77 Trust white people to find ways to exclude blacks.
No to racism
They just dramatic
You mean scarce skills from white people? Which positions are these?
This is bullshit
what are those scarce skills?
njivan77 The problem here is that whites don't qualify, and they are afraid to employ them without proper qualifications. Majority of all high learning institutions around CT's graduate are Africans. Am 💯% sure about that.
njivan77 Their people are not applying because they have jobs and land.
How is this possible
Not true
The question is, why do so many people resign at the City?
They want astronauts?
_Dineo_M jsteenhuisen In a country with such a high unemployment rate, how could this be so hard?
No enough white applicants
This is lie , we have capable young black people who are educated can have that skills unless you want white people
Why don’t you mention those skills? 👀
Scarce skills there's nothing like that someone is just manipulate system with highest qualification as if you will be working in the moon...
Blacks just don't want to work in Cape Town
Zimbabweans will fill in those vacancies
Is this the other side of the Unemployment Crisis? Young people who are educated but not with the skills needed to gain them employment?
That's pure nonsense.. What skills are those ?
They are not scarce, people with a bit too much melanin have those skills and that's not who they want
Ouf what vacancies?
3DMapLady why not train or hire us as we sitting without work lol
True....as I capetonian, CPT job vacancies are not graduate friendly 😔
Lol nah just say scarce skills from the Majority & the Yts. Say it with ur chest 😪.
Not many sane black ppl would like to live through that racist city I for one I would not want to subject myself...in all my years going to CPT never had a good experience the place reeks with racism
sosospay Scarce Skills = Whites not sending CVs
What skills are those ?
No skill is that scarce.
They can't find makgowa
Kindly mention those scarce skills
Been getting lots of offers from CT, including the City of Cape Town. But how many qualified, skilled black people in their right mind would want to subject themselves to Cape Town? That's one of the reasons they're struggling to fill those vacancies.
Which are those skills? They must not tell us nonsense here!!!
What are those skills?
Whites = Scarce skills..
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