Newly appointed communications minister Solly Malatsi has promised policy stability as a cornerstone of his tenure.
Speaking in parliament on Monday on the department of communications & digital technologies’ budget vote – and his first presentation as minister to parliament – Malatsi, a Democratic Alliance MP, said instability in the ministry since 1994 has led to instability in policy formulation. He vowed to fix this.
Although “politics is very volatile”, Malatsi, who is the first non-ANC politician in the democratic era to be appointed as communications minister, said striving for stability and certainty in policy is paramount. Creating soundness and predictability in policy, Malatsi said, will unlock enormous investment in the ICT sector.“We must become obsessive about developing evidence-based policies and policies that don’t change arbitrarily.”The State IT Agency must “establish itself as the leading expert on ICT matters in government, rather than just being an IT procurement shop”. There is an urgent need, he said, to integrate core government systems to “facilitate the seamless flow of data across departments”.
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