Gauteng Department of Education is failing to safeguard its ICT assets
27 August 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is deeply concerned that the Gauteng Department of Education is failing to safeguard its information and communication technology (ICT) assets such as teachers’ laptops, smartboards and learners’ tablets.
According to the Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi, 49 laptops to the value of R527 000,00 were reported stolen in the past three financial years. 379 smartboards to the value of about R5,5 million were stolen and 8200 tablets to the estimated value of R42, 9 million were reported either stolen or lost in the past three financial years.
This was revealed to me in a written reply to my questions in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
The department only managed to recover 342 smartboards and 200 tablets from those that were reported stolen with the police.