The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), is well on its way to turning a corner, after years of being used as an instrument for personal enrichment by the leaders in the ruling party. Noting the above, it is unfortunate that the GCIS is featured prominently in the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture headed by then Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.

To appropriate from President Ramaphosa in his SONA 2022, speech, after receiving the first two parts of the “Zondo Report”, he said: "The first two parts of the report make it plain that there was indeed ‘state capture'." This means that public institutions and state-owned enterprises were infiltrated by a criminal network intent on looting public money for private gain.

The president goes on to say, “The reports have detailed the devastating effects of this criminal activity on SAA, Transnet, Denel, the South African Revenue Service, and Government Communications." Unfortunately, due to a lack of political will in prosecuting these criminals, some of whom have not fled to Dubai, they are still out there, and we can only pray for divine intervention in dealing with such humans.

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