Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber unveiled his plans to transform the Department of Home Affairs into a digital-first, world-class institution, Cape {town} Etc reports.
Speaking at the Cape Town Press Club on Tuesday, Schreiber said South Africa's government institutions were either 'actively hollowed out or, at the very least, allowed to slowly decay' due to corruption or neglect.
'For far too long, political leaders have been disinterested in doing the hard yards of institutional reform, instead lurching from one crisis to the next in the hope that populist soundbites would fix our accelerating problems.
'What we have experienced in South Africa for too long, is a form of institutional vandalism. Instead of maintaining and enhancing them, we have allowed our public entities to be stripped away, piece by piece, like the railway tracks at Transnet,' he added.
Schreiber emphasised the need for digital transformation to overhaul the department and redefine government operations in South Africa, highlighting how years of corruption and neglect had severely undermined public institutions, including Home Affairs, leading to a state of disrepair and inefficiency.
