LETTER: I was not appointed by Zuma
Sars IT chief lists achievements in her field from before the Jacob Zuma administration
In his column, “Sars IT chief a symptom of Zuma’s toxic racial brew” (October 26) Jonny Steinberg writes “ ... and if the useful idiot is a black woman, then so be it”. I served government under former president Thabo Mbeki and I was part of his delegation to Tunisia in 2003 at the World Summit on Information Society, where he delivered a keynote address with the late Kofi Annan. I was serving as a chief information officer in the department of communications under the leadership of the late Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri and the director-general was Lyndall Shope-Mafole, who was on my CV as a reference when I joined the SA Revenue Service (Sars). The Government Information Technology Officers Council is one of the institutional mechanisms that was supporting the National Information Society and Development Plan (Isad) as approved by cabinet. I have been a member of the council for more than 15 years and chaired it for six years. I also participated extensively in the Isad intergovernmental ...
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