Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has appointed Basil Ford as administrator of Usaasa, the government agency charged with bridging the digital divide in South Africa.
Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has withdrawn the appointment of Newyear Ntuli as administrator of Usaasa, the government agency responsible for bridging the digital divide in South Africa, just seven days after she announced it.
The State IT Agency and Usaasa are to be run by administrators while they are restructured and their mandates reconfigured.
Cisco South Africa has launched a R10-million incubation hub north of Durban. Located at Dube Trade Port, near King Shaka International airport, it’s the second such facility to be build by Cisco in the country.
On the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack Apple’s big services event and wonder if the company has done enough to be a meaningful competitor to Netflix.
Setumo Mohapi, the well-respected CEO of the State IT Agency, who engineered a major clean-up and turnaround at the troubled agency after taking the reins in 2015, has resigned.
The US software giant has issued a stern “no comment” to accusations that it hired a former senior national treasury official in order to secure a contract to supply software for a major overhaul of the South African government’s IT systems.
The State IT Agency, which provides centralised IT services to the public sector, was again hit by downtime on Monday, the second time this has happened in three days.
Home affairs’ systems are back online following a power outage at the State IT Agency.
The troubled State IT Agency is winning the war on the crooks who have been defrauding government. That’s the word from the agency’s CEO, Setumo Mohapi, who held a press conference in Pretoria on Friday