Department of Transport minister Barbara Creecy. (Image source: GCIS) The political principals in the Department of Transport (DOT) have welcomed the ruling setting aside the driving licence card machines tender awarded to French firm IDEMIA. This week, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria declared that the tender was irregular, invalid, unlawful and unenforceable. As…
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana. In a bid to curb corruption, government has launched the first Procurement Payments Dashboard using data from its Basic Accounting System. This was announced by finance minister Enoch Godongwana, presenting the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement in Cape Town, earlier today. According to the minister, this dashboard, which is available on…
YesWeHack, the crowdsourced security testing and vulnerability management platform, is the European Commission’s new preferred provider of bug bounty services under a cascade model. The European Union’s main executive branch has run bug bounty programs to harden open source assets used across EU servers and systems since 2019. A new tender was launched this year…
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service has welcomed the expanded scope of the IFMS investigation. The expanded investigation into the integrated financial management system (IFMS) tender is a vital step towards upholding accountability and transparency in the public sector, says the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service. The scope of the Special Investigating Unit’s…
