In recent media revelations, further corruption in the awarding of a contract by SITA's top management was discovered which proves that its executives cannot be entrusted to run an honest and effective organisation. It has a dismal track record of failure to meet targets, earning the scorn of the Auditor General.
President Jacob Zuma must order another Special Investigations Unit probe into the latest corruption scandal as uncovered by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), tallying up to three such probes being undertaken since 2012.
In addition to this, the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Siyabonga Cwele, whose responsibility now includes SITA, must explain to the parliamentary portfolio committee what crisis strategy he will put in place to address the obviously failed turnaround strategy ordered by Cabinet in 2012.
Minister Cwele is due to brief the committee on the mandate of the new Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on the 29th of August.
I will write to him to ask that he table PWC's recent audit report for the committee's discussion at that meeting and that he tell us what first steps he has taken to address SITA's perpetual failures.
The delivery of eGovernment to all South Africans is critical if we are to become a knowledge-driven society and SITA has dismally failed to be an effective driver of Information and Communication technology (ICT) change within all spheres of government.
There needs to be a radical re-think of whether centralised control in a state entity is the most effective and the fastest way to enable government entities and departments at all spheres to deliver eGovernment services.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Marian Shinn
Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 07.08.2014
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