Home Affairs: The Minister must come clean on Gijima contract
The Democratic Alliance notes the announcement by the Minister of Home Affairs that a settlement with Gijima has been reached, and that the company has been reinstated as the contractor to implement the long-awaited "Who Am I Online" system.
Many questions remain unanswered.
Two reports commissioned by Ministers of Home Affairs have been kept under wraps. The first report, by the Office of the Auditor-General, was apparently delivered to the Ministry of Home Affairs in February 2009, but has never been made public. This is despite calls for disclosure of the contents of the report by the DA, the ID and by the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.
The second report is by academic Harvey Wainer, and was, we are told, delivered to Minister Dlamini-Zuma in 2009. It, too, has never been made public.
In December last year, the DA submitted applications, in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000, for copies of the two reports. No response has been forthcoming. Questions have now been submitted for written response by the Minister.