By Thapelo Molefe
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has been labelled a national security threat by Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) following damning reports from the Auditor-General and the Special Investigating Unit.
The committee revealed on Wednesday that governance and operational failures at SITA have left South Africa’s digital infrastructure exposed, with critical vacancies, obsolete technology, flawed procurement processes and inadequate cybersecurity measures undermining government operations.
Scopa chairperson Songezo Zibi said SITA’s continued dysfunction was unacceptable and posed a direct risk to financial controls and service delivery across all levels of government.
“It is unacceptable that at a time when information technology is so critical to financial controls, governance and operational effectiveness, the sole agency tasked with supporting government is failing so dismally and for so sustained a period,” Zibi said.
SITA, responsible for delivering IT services to state institutions, has not achieved a clean audit in
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