The State IT Agency (SITA) has suspended its fifth executive, according to a report in the Sunday Independent.
The paper says all five suspensions have happened within the past four months. The latest executive on the list is Nagalin Tuganadar, who was responsible for government solutions and standards at SITA, it says.
Spokesperson Anthea Summers told the paper four executives had been charged, and the disciplinary process was "running". She would not reveal dates of the hearings, the paper notes.
The paper did not clarify what charges had been levelled against the executives. Tuganadar would not comment on the suspension, it said.
In July, COO Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, head of corporate services Diamond Mushwana, head of human capital management Tshidi Gumbi, and chief supply chain management officer Thenjiwe Mjoli were placed on precautionary suspension, according to the New Age.
The August report said the suspensions emanated from SITA's restructuring process, and that more staff could be affected by the process. SITA this year wrapped up a three-year turnaround strategy that seems to have done little to strengthen the faltering agency.
In June, new CEO Sithembiso Freeman Nomvalo told ITWeb it would be "premature and presumptuous" to label the strategy a failure, but he conceded the implementation of the strategy might have lacked direction.
Nomvalo replaced former CEO Blake Mosley-Lefatola, whose contract was suddenly terminated eight months before it was due to expire earlier this year.
SITA declined to elaborate on the reasons for Mosley-Lefatola's departure, only stating that after a review of the agency's strategic direction, the board and Mosley-Lefatola agreed to an amicable parting of ways to allow him to pursue other interests outside SITA.
Shortly after, Cabinet approved the appointment of Nomvalo as CEO and as an executive member on SITA's board for up to a year, while it seeks to fill the post on a longer-term basis. Nomvalo became the agency's 17th CEO in 14 years.
SITA is also the subject of a probe by the Special Investigation Unit, which is looking into every tender it has issued in the past nine years. The probe, announced last year, was prompted by various earlier investigations, and is expected to be wrapped up in 2015.
SITA's former board stepped down in November pending the investigation, and was replaced with a new board chaired by Vilakazi, also former Business Unity SA CEO.
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