Home affairs moves to sever ties with ‘unreliable’ government IT agency

Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber has moved to sever ties with the government’s lead IT agency, the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), and is hoping to achieve what his predecessors fell short in doing as the department struggles with persistent downtime of its systems.

This as calls grow for departments to be allowed to change regulations to empower state entities to appoint their own IT service providers rather than being forced to use Sita — a proposal put on the table by communications & digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi...

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