SAPS, via SITA, seeks a service provider to supply, deliver, support and maintain body-worn and vehicle dashboard cameras. (Image source: iStock) It’s another busy week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with around 800 new requests placed on the platform over the past week. The ICT industry fares well with municipalities, in particular, offering a range…
The State Information Technology Agency (Sita) has appointed three executives to its executive committee as the government IT agency works to strengthen its leadership capacity and improve operational stability. The appointments, effective 1 September 2026, are Phumzile Njoko as executive: supply chain management, Gabaiphiwe Tabane as executive: client engagement and Bongumusa Kumalo as executive: network,…
SITA is developing a structured SMME training and supplier engagement model. (Image source: iStock) The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has recorded an increase in the amount spent on procurement from small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs), in the first four months of the 2026/27 financial year. SITA sits as a central pillar of government’s…
SITA’s head office in Erasmuskloof, Pretoria. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has begun efforts to stabilise authority vacuums within the organisation by finalising recruitment of key executive positions, Parliament’s portfolio committee heard this week. This, as the Public Service Commission’s (PSC’s) probe of the government IT procurement’s affairs, for the…
Tlali Tlali, head of corporate affairs at SITA. The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) says the in-house tool built in response to last year’s Eastern Cape floods has been deployed at scale, reaching municipalities across the province. Named the Provincial Disaster Management Application System (PDMAS), SITA says it’s a fully integrated, web-based digital platform developed…
Despite missing its annual target, BBI delivered a stronger-than-expected final quarter, generating revenue of R290 million. State-owned broadband infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco (BBI) ended the 2025/26 financial year below its revenue target despite a strong fourth-quarter recovery. The company says the loss of a major customer contract and delays to key government connectivity projects weighed…
Buried in the Public Service Commission’s investigation report into the State IT Agency (Sita), which has been provided to TechCentral, is a finding whose implications neither communications minister Solly Malatsi nor PSC chairman Somadoda Fikeni drew on when they released it in Pretoria on Monday: the instability that hollowed out the agency did not start…
Communications and digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi. Communications minister Solly Malatsi has touted automated processes across the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) to reduce risks and minimise indiscretions. This, after the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) and Public Service Commission (PSC) this week released the findings of an investigation into governance, irregular procurement…
Systemic and mutually-reinforcing weaknesses have been identified in SITA’s governance environment. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) Procurement irregularities, inconsistent consequence management and irregular expenditure are among the identified challenges that handicap the State Information Technology Agency (SITA). This is based on an investigation report commissioned by communications minister Solly Malatsi in December 2024. He requested thePublic…
More than R2-billion in irregular expenditure, a quarter of tenders that never resulted in an award and procurement matters stuck in adjudication for more than 400 days on average: that is the picture of the State IT Agency (Sita) painted by the Public Service Commission’s long-awaited investigation report, released in Pretoria on Monday. Communications minister…
