Porn problem is national
Council workers abusing the Internet and spending their days "porn surfing" is not just a Johannesburg problem, but a national one.
This was the response from opposition leaders after an expose on City of Joburg employees downloading, watching and distributing pornography during office hours.
"The government should introduce a mechanism whereby attempts to get to porn sites are blocked," said Independent Democrats Cape Town councillor Joe McGluwa.
"Perhaps the government could also start a support system for porn addicts, but blocking porn sites would take away the temptation and in one stroke save South Africa millions of rands every month."
McGluwa called on Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi to "employ IT specialists to introduce an effective blocking system for porn sites".
"At the end of the day, all these computers belong to the government and therefore the blocking would not represent an invasion of privacy. We cannot allow taxpayers' money to be wasted on surfing porn, which directly affects service delivery and must be stopped immediately."
Meanwhile, the Democratic Alliance has called for the guilty state employees to be named and shamed.
"We are asking questions as to why someone has sat on these reports and why there has not been full disclosure. We are tired of hearing excuses of 'constitutional rights to privacy'," said councillor Mike Moriarty, leader of the DA in the City of Johannesburg.
"People lose their rights when they break the law. Yes, a person is innocent until proven guilty, but in these cases there have been conclusive investigations already."
Moriarty added: "Citizens have a right to know how their money is being used or misused. The council must not hide these reports. The time has come to name and shame those responsible for deviant behaviour at the public's expense."
An alarming number of council workers, from secretaries to senior directors, were also committing other offences, ranging from downloading copyrighted music to surfing the Internet for Russian brides.
A department of housing director has been bust with almost 2 000 pornographic pictures and video clips.
Also, a formal letter was written to the then city manager, Pascal Moloi, by the head of the Independent Complaints Directorate asking him to stop his employees distributing "hard-core pornography". In a separate case, two managers resigned before they could be disciplined for being in possession of pornography.
Well-placed sources said that "almost every computer touched has pornography on it". Read more
This was the response from opposition leaders after an expose on City of Joburg employees downloading, watching and distributing pornography during office hours.
"The government should introduce a mechanism whereby attempts to get to porn sites are blocked," said Independent Democrats Cape Town councillor Joe McGluwa.
"Perhaps the government could also start a support system for porn addicts, but blocking porn sites would take away the temptation and in one stroke save South Africa millions of rands every month."
McGluwa called on Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi to "employ IT specialists to introduce an effective blocking system for porn sites".
"At the end of the day, all these computers belong to the government and therefore the blocking would not represent an invasion of privacy. We cannot allow taxpayers' money to be wasted on surfing porn, which directly affects service delivery and must be stopped immediately."
Meanwhile, the Democratic Alliance has called for the guilty state employees to be named and shamed.
"We are asking questions as to why someone has sat on these reports and why there has not been full disclosure. We are tired of hearing excuses of 'constitutional rights to privacy'," said councillor Mike Moriarty, leader of the DA in the City of Johannesburg.
"People lose their rights when they break the law. Yes, a person is innocent until proven guilty, but in these cases there have been conclusive investigations already."
Moriarty added: "Citizens have a right to know how their money is being used or misused. The council must not hide these reports. The time has come to name and shame those responsible for deviant behaviour at the public's expense."
An alarming number of council workers, from secretaries to senior directors, were also committing other offences, ranging from downloading copyrighted music to surfing the Internet for Russian brides.
A department of housing director has been bust with almost 2 000 pornographic pictures and video clips.
Also, a formal letter was written to the then city manager, Pascal Moloi, by the head of the Independent Complaints Directorate asking him to stop his employees distributing "hard-core pornography". In a separate case, two managers resigned before they could be disciplined for being in possession of pornography.
Well-placed sources said that "almost every computer touched has pornography on it". Read more
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