
The department of communications & digital technologies has formalised a three-year plan to redesign the State IT Agency – an institutional reform effort that has been repeatedly promised over the past seven years but never concluded.
The commitment appears in the department’s annual performance plan (APP) for 2026/2027, signed off by the minister, Solly Malatsi. Malatsi, a DA MP, is the first non-ANC politician to occupy the role since the first democratic elections in 1994.
The APP sets quarterly milestones for the current financial year: a project initiation report in the first quarter, a diagnostic and concept framework in the second, stakeholder consultation and governance…
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