THE Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade slammed the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) for questioning the department’s decision to proceed with e-learning in the province.
This comes after the provincial education department’s decision to go it alone by providing matric learners with tablets as part of its broader strategy to introduce e-learning in the province.
SITA, which falls under the Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams’ department, argues that every department in South Africa must procure all information technology goods or services through state agency.
SITA also argues that allowing the Eastern Cape department of education (DoE) to continue implementing the suspended e-learning tablets project will give EC matriculants a “perverse” advantage over matriculants from other provinces in forthcoming examinations.
SITA has since taken the R528 matric tablet contract between the Eastern Cape Education Department, Sizwe Africa IT Group and MTN on review.
But in an exclusive interview with Inside
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