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SAPS-SITA EXPOSED

R1.3m a month paid to Mr and Mrs SAPS director and deputy director's child A consultant employed by the South African Police Service (SAPS), whose highest qualification was matric, was paid R1.3 million a month. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lzhxR2h4dWSAU2HlOLhRspikBKYse4pY40cO1MV_0CaZmK0Ok2CmtA7EByY05sdDo0vGIiw9TD3Il4IpqEOr0Y0lB0D0lpMp7CKhYTWKMcimwh0WTo8NLD4w9Wdm_4xKdny3Hfuu_Wp2/s1600/SAPS.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534326071871256690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lzhxR2h4dWSAU2HlOLhRspikBKYse4pY40cO1MV_0CaZmK0Ok2CmtA7EByY05sdDo0vGIiw9TD3Il4IpqEOr0Y0lB0D0lpMp7CKhYTWKMcimwh0WTo8NLD4w9Wdm_4xKdny3Hfuu_Wp2/s400/SAPS.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>This was revealed by Sindi Chikunga, chairwoman of the National Assembly police oversight committee, during a hearing with the SAPS and the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) yesterday. The consultant’s mother had been working as a director and her father as a deputy director at the SAPS, Chikunga said. Police national commissioner General Bheki Cele had on a previous occasion confirmed this. Cele did not answer repeated calls made to him about the matter. But, appearing before the committee a few months ago, he mentioned that the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) was investigating a married couple who had been employed by the SAPS, the wife being a director and the husband a deputy-director. The couple owned a company that received tenders for services provided to the SAPS. The couple’s daughter, who was apparently still in school, did work for the SAPS through the company on behalf of the family. Police spokesman Vish Naidoo said he could not confirm that the consultant mentioned in yesterday’s meeting and the daughter referred to by Cele was the same person. Chikunga said the case was alarming and indicated the serious problems the SAPS faced. “If a matriculant earns R1.3m per month… there are serious problems. “What special services are you going to get from a matriculant that you cannot get from someone in the SAPS? It’s concerning and shows the issues that are there and what’s going on in the department,” said Chikunga. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBwNGHmFX3aR8Z-BZKl6r1vVVZg4BaP8alPm0rGe2fb6GgqJ-WfXowVy3olTLgnjjrcUH7OJO7OLVbjm0nkUV2sbW9K8nzKfZybMaxqQdNxtA1S35isIKCFNONmXnAYadqDVL3Sxsv8Hg/s1600/SITA.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534325857301578018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBwNGHmFX3aR8Z-BZKl6r1vVVZg4BaP8alPm0rGe2fb6GgqJ-WfXowVy3olTLgnjjrcUH7OJO7OLVbjm0nkUV2sbW9K8nzKfZybMaxqQdNxtA1S35isIKCFNONmXnAYadqDVL3Sxsv8Hg/s400/SITA.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>MPs accused the SAPS of handing over blank cheques to Sita without properly planning the use of the money. “They get allocated the money and then they say, ‘Oh, what do we need to do with it’,” said ANC MP Greg Schneemann. Police commander Laytoa Tshabalala, the head of SAPS’s technology unit, agreed with Schneemann’s sentiment. He said he had addressed with the SAPS and Sita the “tell us how much you earn and we’ll help you spend it” tendencies. MPs questioned the business relationship between the SAPS and Sita, which provides technological services. ANC MP Annelise van Wyk said: “This is absolutely ridiculous. SAPS is Sita’s biggest client. There are serious concerns in the way SAPS determines priorities. I wonder whether this relationship is unhealthy.” Tshabalala said the SAPS had had serious doubts about renewing its contract with Sita this year. “The management of SAPS resisted giving the money to Sita. We were seriously toying with the idea to not go into business with them.” Tshabalala, who only recently started working for the unit, said that on his arrival he was shocked at the state of the business practices. “I was saying, it can’t be that Sita is the only (service provider). There were people who were working for Sita that came from SAPS. How is it that we allowed this mafia to run amok for so long?” He said almost half of the consultants used by Sita were employed by the SAPS. “It’s no point cleaning on one side and not the other. You must clean both sides,” he added. - Pretoria News See:- <a href="http://www.iweek.co.za/ViewStory.asp?StoryID=201351">Report exposes Sita</a> ITWEB Report - <a href="http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26250:sita-exposed">SITA exposed</a>

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SA municipalities declare national state of emergency?

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0BjIHaAIAtefjEtwnxKFhKwqpnmFdzTt2Cj_PHBx61GNpFwVXTinAEAi2gtnWPzuetCXWtSlG1I1dM56IhR1wxGIGfmj_hjWiKwpCSYphSlFRotiaizXRnR6HQr9nacscToDcgGBRmY/s1600-h/municipalities-depts.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345799043775729506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0BjIHaAIAtefjEtwnxKFhKwqpnmFdzTt2Cj_PHBx61GNpFwVXTinAEAi2gtnWPzuetCXWtSlG1I1dM56IhR1wxGIGfmj_hjWiKwpCSYphSlFRotiaizXRnR6HQr9nacscToDcgGBRmY/s400/municipalities-depts.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" /></a>Many of South Africa's 283 municipalities are in a "state of paralysis & dysfunction" Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Sicelo Shiceka said on Wednesday. "In terms of the new mandate, the department has committed to provide provincialised hands-on support to provincial and local government to ensure that they are in a better position to execute their mandates. "This work has started already. As we execute this task, it became apparent that many of our municipalities are in a state of paralysis and dysfunction so much that they needed extra-ordinary interventions," Shiceka told the SA Local Government Association in East London. One of the key problems facing municipalities was a reputational crisis, he said. "This is a sector that is perceived to be incompetent, disorganised and riddled with corruption and maladministration. "During several research surveys conducted regarding public perception on spheres of government, local government has always scored the lowest. "Even the latest research results points to that sad perception. For that matter, the results show that the public rating of municipalities is at an all-time low." Its assessment of the disarray some municipalities were in stemmed from a detailed study of municipalities in the North West undertaken in the last two months. "This process was characterised by meetings that concluded at 5am in the morning, where ordinary councillors making shocking confessions of rampant and systemic corruption, and senior officials in government broke down in tears admitting that they were clueless as to the real state of local government in their province," he told Salga. The department found a range of problems persisting during its assessment and these included: a problematic political/administrative interface, lack of accountability, fraud and corruption, dysfunctional caucuses, weak financial management, poor service delivery, unsatisfactory labour relations and weak public participation structures. "I am taking the liberty of sharing this experience with this assembly to argue that if the North West is indicative, in any way, of what is happening in our municipalities in the other eight provinces then we need to declare a national state of emergency on local government in this country," he said.

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