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The Zambian government has announced an ambitious project to digitise over 400,000 payslips for civil servants, covering records from 1972 to the present.
This initiative is a key component of the country’s broader digital transformation agenda.
Beaton Sibulowa, Director of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, revealed that the digitisation effort would be carried out in collaboration with SMART Zambia Institute.
In a statement issued in Lusaka on Wednesday, he stated that the project was aimed to archive payslips from two significant periods: from 1972 to 1995 and from 1995 to the introduction of the electronic payslip system.
Sibulowa explained that these payslips were not currently part of the SMART Zambia e-payslip or the integrated Payroll Management and Establishment Control (PMEC) systems.
The digitisation process is intended to address this gap and ensure the preservation of critical financial records for future reference.
Valentine Chitambala, Assistant Director of Service Management at SMART Zambia, noted that 1995 was chosen as a key reference year due to its significance in the civil service sector, marking a period when many employees joined the service and are nearing retirement.
Chitambala stated that by archiving and digitizing these historical payslips, the government aimed to improve record-keeping efficiency, enhance transparency, and facilitate informed decision-making.
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