Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber says they are running a pilot project that will help improve connectivity within the department’s offices.
Schreiber says the project is being run together with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and has migrated some of the Home Affairs connections away from the SITA set up, towards the CSIR. The department has been faced with some backlash with citizens complaining about the systems going offline in various Home Affairs offices.
Schreiber says the project has been implemented in one of their offices and has proven to be effective. “The Wynberg office in Cape Town is one of these. And that’s now got a one GB per second line compared to some of the much slower indeed not gold packages that Home Affairs has had with SITA and that has made a massive difference in that particular office. So I think the technical solutions are there, what we need to do is be able to cooperate with our colleagues in the Department of Communications for example, and find better arrangements for Home Affairs to speed up these connections.