Top Anc Mp Slams Business Leader's Call To Scrap Sita Monopoly

Diko's comments were in response to an opinion piece penned by Mavuso and published by TechCentral last week.

In the article, Mavuso argued that efforts to reform the embattled State IT Agency Sita - which is mandated by law to procure IT products and services for government exclusively - have failed, largely as a result of parties "politicising the matter".

Mavuso suggested the decentralisation of IT procurement away from Sita as an alternative, a move that would end the agency's "monopoly" over government IT.

In an X post on Thursday, Diko challenged Mavuso to name any business that's a member of BLSA that allows its operating companies to "run their own IT systems outside of what group prescribes" that they use.

"The minister has merit on some of the issues that he wants to address, and he is well within his right to do so. But he has to follow proper process and stick to the letter and spirit of the law," Diko said at the time.