Gosebo was a visionary par excellence
Computer whizz will be missed by the ANC and state
Born: August 9 1958 Died: May 5 2017 Funeral: Tomorrow, at Siyabuswa Community Hall
Ntjatji Gosebo died last Friday without achieving his dream that government establish a Public Sector Chief Information Officers’ Council (PSCIOC) that focuses on IT elements, PS controls and to device a solid contract management system to deal with IT elements (IT infrastructure) that are beyond the control of the public sector.
One of his other desires that he would have liked to come into fruition was an integrated secure membership system for the ANC that is always available online, simple to use and can accommodate membership changes in a dynamic environment.
When he met his untimely death, Gosebo was still serving on the North West premier’s IT Advisory Council, where he was appointed in 2006.
Gosebo, a computer science graduate at the University of the North (Turfloop) and St Peters University in Jersey City, New Jersey in the US, also obtained an MSC in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, US. Gosebo worked in various capacities at the University of North West (UNW) from 1992 to 1998 as chairman in the department of information systems (DIS).
He also served as deputy dean in the Faculty of Commerce, senior lecturer in the DIS and acting university registrar. When he left the UNW, he joined Siemens Business Services in 1998.
He was instrumental in shaping the future vision of SITA while he served as ICT advisor to then minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi in the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) between 1999 and 2003.
He influenced the direction of SITA, which led to the adoption of the “pillars” of government’s ICT House of Value, which encapsulates SITA’s mandate that signify and guide the value that the organisation should contribute to the public sector ICT acquisition.
In September 2013, Gosebo was employed as deputy director-general in the Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) branch of the DPSA with the responsibilities that included the creation and maintenance of an environment for the deployment of IT as a strategic tool of public administration. His other responsibility as GCIO was to serve in the board of SITA.
Between January and June 2012, prior to the December 2012 53rd conference, the membership of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal grew from 224 900 to 331 820, an increase of 47.54%.
The increase was due to a strategy suggested by Gosebo that students at the Durban University of Technology be used to mass capture all manual membership forms and produce membership cards. Gosebo has always wondered why the ANC keeps on passing resolutions on this instead of implementing tested processes.
The ANC and government must honour his legacy by re“He spectively ensuring that there is a powerful member database system to allow the ANC to track membership fees, financial and operational information in a single, secure database owned by the ANC and a PS CIO Council is established by government.
Gosebo is survived by his wife Kedibone and three daughters.