His departure comes just nine months after his appointment, which was seen as a bold move in putting a 60-year-old white male in charge of an organisation that supplies technologies to the government. <\/p>\n
The timing is dreadful, coming as Sita stages a high-profile conference in Durban to send a message to private sector suppliers that political influence counts for more than business sense. One source said Jones’s resignation would “throw away” Sita’s credibility. <\/p>\n
Jones and Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi had both given upbeat speeches at the conference on Monday, though Jones had already quietly tendered his resignation. <\/p>\n
Yesterday Jones confirmed that he was quitting, though the date and terms of his departure were still being finalised. He said there had been disagreements over a number of issues, chiefly involving authority and the roles of management. He declined to comment further, but did say: “Somebody else might be able to fill the role quite successfully, but it’s not something that I am capable of or want to do.” <\/p>\n
Online publication ITWeb said Jones had clashed with the government’s chief information officer, Michelle Williams, who is also deputy-chairman of the Sita board, apparently after she interfered in the awarding of a tender. <\/p>\n
ITWeb also said Fraser Moleketi had sided with Williams, upsetting other board members in a move that could trigger several resignations.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE short-lived CEO of the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) confirmed his resignation yesterday. Llewellyn Jones will step down apparently because of political interference in the agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}