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Immigration Act, 2002 (Act No. 13 of 2002)

Notices

Specific Professional Categories and Specific Occupational Classes

Notice No. R. 125 of 2006

 

Notice No. R. 125

8 February 2006

GG 28480

 

Department of Home Affairs

 

The Minister of Home Affairs has, in terms of section 19(1) of the Immigration Act, 2002 (Act No. 13 of 2002), and regulation 16 of the Immigration Regulations, after consultation with the Ministers of Labour and Trade and Industry, determined the quotas for specific professional categories and occupational classes in the following schedule:

 

Schedule

 

The national scarce and critical skills' list

Broad Occupation Category

Specific Occupational Category

Applicable conditions

Applicable Quota

1. Science and Engineering:

Professionals and Associate Professional

Aeronautical Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Aircraft maintenance Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Autotronics: Vehicle diagnostic technicians

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Avionic Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

250

Chemical Engineers including Rubber & Plastic

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

100

Construction Civil/Structural Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

5000

Design and Engineering: Piping and pipe laying

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Electronic: Radio frequency and Signal Engineers Microwave and satellite engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Geologists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

100

Astronomers

• Registration with relevant Professions body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

200

Astrophysicists

• Registration with relevant Professions body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

200

Atmospheric physicist

• Registration with relevant Professions body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

200

Surface physicist

• Registration with relevant Professions body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

200

Space Scientist

• Registration with relevant Professions body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

200

Geophysicists

• Registration with relevant Professions body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

150

Industrial Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

5000

Jewellery designers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

250

Mechanical Engineers including pressure vessel and stress analysis

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Metallurgical engineers including material processes and development; Metrologists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

250

Mining: Rock and Colliery Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

100

Aircraft maintenance technicians

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Architectural Technicians

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Aviations technicians

(Aviation specific design)

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Dimensional Controllers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

100

Earth Sciences technician

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

250

Electrical Mechanical including instrumentation,

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Electronic technicians: Silicon and Microchip developers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Foundry metallurgists

 

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Hydraulics and Pneumatics Technicians

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Industrial/Product development technologist

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

NDE Technicians

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Tool designers including Millwrights, Melters,

Coded Welders and Moulders

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

3000

2. Education professionals

Maths and Science Teachers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

3. Information Technology professionals

Software Developers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1500

Software Engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1500

ICT Security Specialists including Dimensional Controllers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

4. Health and medical sciences professions

Biological science technician

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

3000

Bio-informatics

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Biomedical engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Combinational and Computational Chemistry

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

150

Research and Development Pharmacologists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

300

5. Agricultural Sciences:

Professionals and associate professionals

Agricultural Economist

(Econometrics)

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Agricultural engineers including Farm Irrigation Systems engineers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Agricultural Extension officers: technology focused

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Agricultural statistics:

Biometrician, crop modeller

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Agricultural

Biotechnologists

Genetic markers and promoters

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Virologists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

250

Oenologist/Viticulture

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

350

Geneticists plant breeders

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Pasture scientists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Plant pathologists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

1000

Food Safety Quality Assurance Specialists

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Veterinarians

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

6. Management and commerce professions

Actuaries

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Financial market analyst

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500

Risk managers

• Registration with relevant Professional body where applicable.
• At least 5 years relevant experience

500