The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies’ DigiTech website, which cost R744,000 to create, has been offline for nearly two weeks.
“Sita’s Service Provider repaired a bend in a fibre connecting to the Cape Town PoP, and the Centurion link was also stabilised. Service improvement discussions are currently taking place between SITA and the Internet Service Provider,” it said.“This site can’t be reached. www.digitech.gov.za unexpectedly closed the connection,” it reads.
She said the platform would serve as a digital distribution service developed, maintained, and operated by the South African government. Former Democratic Alliance spokesperson for telecommunications and digital technologies Solly Malatsi described the website as looking like it could have beenHe highlighted the lack of download links and sufficient information about the digital products available at launch.
He likened the DigiTech project to the Free State website scandal in 2013 when it was revealed that the province’s government had spent R40 million developing it. In May 2024, MyBroadband spotted that various visual elements on the website had changed colour to resemble the South African government’s colour scheme more closely.Design-wise, the DCDT has changed the website’s banners to a green matching the colour on South Africa’s coat of arms, while certain headings have changed to an orange colour similar to that of the coat of arms’ crown.
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