All government computers need anti-porn software, the African Christian Democratic Party said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“All government computers — whether desktops or laptops — should be fitted with software that prevents online gambling and pornography use,” ACDP Gauteng leader Lydia Meshoe said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Civil servants should use taxpayers’ rands, and the hours that those taxpayers pay them for, to work for service delivery.”<\/p>\n
Meshoe said the ACDP was shocked at the reports that Competition Commission head Shan Ramburuth used thousands of rands of the taxpayers’ money on pornography.<\/p>\n
The Sunday Times reported that Ramburuth had denied resigning in the wake of a pornography scandal and was still in discussion with the economic development minister.<\/p>\n
However, ministry spokesman Manelisi Wolela said following complaints “relating to acts of misconduct”, Ramburuth resigned as commissioner and as an employee of the Competition Commission.<\/p>\n
The Sunday Times report referred to a forensic report by Paul O’Sullivan and Associates which detailed how Ramburuth apparently visited 25 pornographic sites between August and November 2011. His data bill in October that year — while using a government issued sim card overseas — came to a total of R123,000.<\/p>\n
The report suggested he had visited “inappropriate sites which were of an explicit pornographic nature”.<\/p>\n
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