ICT Charter gazetted under 9(5)

The dti's dti.gov.za website isn't working, so I tried thedti.co.za and lo and behold. A new website and all sorts of great Robisms. The first Robism you see is the gazetting of the forgotten about ICT Charter under section 9(5).  It does seem a little different to other charters and includes a section for specialised entities. There are also different weightings for the elements

Element	Weighting	Targets
Ownership	20	30%
Management	10	50%
Employment equity	10	43-80%
Skills development	17	3% (same as the dti's)
Preferential procurement	20	70% (dti's 6 year target)
Enterprise development	11	5% of NPAT
Socio-economic development initiatives	12	1.5% of NPAT

And what about the features

1. Lasts until 31 March 2026!!! What!!! (no it's true)
2. 5% of NPAT for 11 points (ED) – wow what a great deal
3. More pages dedicated to ownership than anything else
4. 1.5% of NPAT for 12 points under SED (with the added word – INITIATIVES). That's a better deal.

I would suggest that this is another piece of rubbish, written by people with little tolerance for sense (you know like jungle). Please protest against this thing vociferously – it reeks of ancient thought processes and ………. rubbish.  You've got until the 10th of August this year.

Comments

[sauna esofman]

It does seem a little different to other charters and includes a section for specialised entities. There are also different weightings for the elements