The Department of Communications most senior public servant, director-general Andile Ngcaba, has resigned to pursue his own business interests within the ICT sector.
The announcement was made this afternoon by the minister of communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, at a meeting of chief executive officers of portfolio organisations.
Ngcaba told ITWeb that he intends to leave government employ early next year and that a final date had not yet been set.
He intends to start a business in the ICT sector that will be involved in SA and the rest of the continent.
"I will have to do a round of raising funds for the venture, but I intend to start it as my own company," he says.
Ngcaba says he has been mulling over his departure from the department for the last six months. He denied rumours that he would join any of the big names in the ICT sector, such as Dimension Data.
As the longest serving director-general of a government department, Ngcaba has served under three different ministers during the past eight years and served a total of 23 years within the public service.
During his tenure, he oversaw 10 separate pieces of legislation and the process of the privatisation and public listing of telecommunications utility, Telkom.
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