Relocation of the Home Affairs Head Office

Relocation of the Home Affairs Head Office to the Hallmark Building in the City Centre

We announced earlier this month that in line with government’s commitment to make services accessible to the people, the Department of Home Affairs will be relocating its Head Office operations to the Hallmark Building in the Pretoria City Centre. This also comes within the context of government’s commitment to express confidence in the City Centre while encouraging investment and economic opportunities.

In this regard, the relocation of our operations began this past weekend, Saturday 12 November 2011, with the movement of all IT staff and equipment. We are happy to report that the movement of Branch IT to the Hallmark Building was successful with no reported interruption in services.

We will continue the relocation according to our movement plan, in terms of which, we will in the coming week be moving the Counter-Corruption and Immigration Services Branches of the Department. This will be followed by the Internal Audit, Communications, Human Resources, Learning Academy and Finance Branches as well as the Office of the Director-General respectively. In terms of our plan, it is envisaged that the movement to Hallmark Building will be concluded on the 19 December 2011.

We reiterate that we do not envisage any interruption of services during our relocation because local offices will continue to operate as normal.


Issued by the Department of Home Affairs

Pretoria

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17 November 2011
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