Wipro Technologies plans to set up a strategic delivery centre in South Africa and hire around 1,000 professionals there in the next three years.

South Africa's IT spending is projected to increase from $10.7 billion in 2011 to about $17.4 billion in 2015, a CAGR of almost 13 per cent.

Mr Manoj Punja, Senior Vice-President and Head – Focus Markets and Global Sales Operations, Wipro Technologies, said: “South Africa's IT end-user spending, as a portion of real gross domestic product (GDP), will reach 8.6 per cent in 2013. This positions the country at the upper-middle level of IT spender nations within emerging markets. Factors like the time zone advantage, language, cultural compatibility and skill access makes South Africa a favourable destination for the growth of business process outsourcing and IT services.”

Mr Punja said that Wipro plans to initiate campus recruitment drives and establish training and skills development programmes.

“These recruits will then undergo a competency evaluation test and be deputed on projects accordingly,” he said. The company, which has an office in Johannesburg, has around over 500 people onsite and offsite servicing its clients in the region.

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