Russia’s Push to Recruit South African Women Triggers Probe

Russian companies expand their campaigns to find young African women to help fill a labor shortage and increase the concern, many of them are deployed in Ukraine war efforts.

The latest driving is in South Africa, a member of the BRICS block of large developing market economies. Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan, one of the main recruitrs, produces military drones. The South African government is now investigating what Russian companies do and what their intentions are.

The push includes organizations using the BRICS brand. In May, the local part of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance signed an agreement to Alabuga and House Builder Etonstroi Ural to supply a total of 5,600 workers next year.

The South African -based BRICS Student Commission was presented to women between the ages of 18 and 22 after sending ads for construction and hospitality works in Alabuga in January and started advertising from Instagram and South Africa.

Bloomberg told Bloomberg, “Russia is sitting on a demand for labor,” he said. “South Africa is sitting with an unemployment crisis.”

The aging and the shrinking population of Russia, the loss of hundreds of thousands of men in Ukraine and the increase in salaries left a hole in the labor market. At the same time, one -third of the labor force in South Africa is unemployed. However, although the economy makes sense, the increasing examination of recruitment pressure is conducting.

For example, three research reports from organizations such as the Alabuga region, the Science and International Security Institute or ISIS are accused of deceiving African women to work at the facility that collects Kamikaze drones. According to ISIS, women are more reliable for certain types of business than men.

The authorities in Pretoria may call Russia’s diplomatic representatives to answer questions. They asked them not to be defined because public statements were not made.

“The South African government is actively investigating the reports of foreign programs hired under false allegations,” the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation said. He said. “The South African government has not yet found a reliable evidence that the job offers in Russia were inconsistent with the purposes specified. However, the government claimed that the youth was hired by the Alabuga company.”

The start of the Alabuga, the recruitment of the region and the questions sent to Etonstroi Ural remained unanswered. At an event in Botswana, an Alabuga representative rejected African workers in drone plants. The Student Commission and the BRICS also refused to work at the facility with the help of the female business alliance.

“There is not much evidence of the people who are taken there,” he said, ” “We are poor and we need opportunities. We do not send people there to build drones there.”

Indeed, the possibility of working in Russia is an attractive possibility in a country where more than 48% of women under the age of 34 are unemployed. Alabuga’s advertising, the monthly wage can be up to $ 800, not more than a good salary in South Africa, at least more than a job and can be significantly less than the average in the Tatarstan region.

In April, the Student Commission and the Alabuga launch representatives visited the Beyers Nude Secondary School in Johannesburg, Soweto, Johannesburg, according to students.

During the school visit, some said that Bloomberg was given Alabuga branded T -shirts and pencils, promised jobs and free flights, and that they could continue their way to get their own apartments through employment in the region. They were asked to register with a recruitment vehicle in WhatsApp.

In the literature on the website of Alabuga Start, the drone factory is not mentioned. However, the global initiative against ISIS’s reports and transnational crimes said that most of the registered women have started to work at the drone facility despite the fact that they were not told in advance.

Associated Press also reported that in 2024, African women worked at the facility against their will. The drone factory and the Alabuga Economic Zone have been repeatedly bombed by Ukraine, including in August 9th.

Spencer We have guessed that approximately 90% of women who go to Alabuga have entered the drone program, Spe “They build weapons and are exposed to the line of fire because now it’s part of a war.”

In the July 28 report, Alabuga is currently building housing units that can hold 41,000 workers, an indicator that it plans to expand the production of drone.

According to Chris Maphanga, a member of the Board of Directors, the BRICS female business alliance is not interested in sending people to insecure working environments. The group is trying to help Russia to meet 4.8 million workers and also meets other companies, including Shoemaker Orthomoda.

The Alliance said that the South African Ministry of Women’s Ministry of Women has been operating under its “authority .. Zulu said that he was a South African princess on the Alliance website and accompanied the Russian trip by unidentified South African parliamentarians.

The Ministry of Women said in a statement, although the organization is aware of the organization, BRICS said it was not officially linked to the women’s business alliance. There is no information about the Russian recruitment program. Foreign, Education and Labor Ministries did not respond to the requests for comments.

So far, Alabuga has first targeted poor African countries such as Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. On the website, although the first activity in 2023 has set a target of more than 8,000 targets in 2023, he said that he rented only 22 workers through the program. In the first half of 2024, he said that only six of 182 recruitment were South African.

Russian companies and institutions were also active in searching for recruitment in other parts of South Africa.

In April, the beginning of Alabuga organized an event at the University of Botsvana, the country’s capital Gaborone. In this event, representatives refused to work in drone plants when the candidates were questioned by their parents. They also described the program as a way to strengthen young women as a statement of why men were excluded.

In Lesotho, a settlement in South Africa, Phamotse, the leader of the opposition party and former Education Minister of Education, hires young people for working and working opportunities in Russia.

The driver caused the government to make a statement to pay attention to where they sent their students. Phamotse refused to tell you which Russian institutions worked together when Bloomberg was contacted. Meloli Airwaves, a local media organization, reported that some of those hired on August 20 were left to Russia.

“Many of these women live where they are vulnerable, and have very little opportunity to education, work, live an independent life and travel,” he said. “When they come to Alabuga, they have a rude awakening about what they are promised and what they actually do.”

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