From Tectonic:

The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software to free and open source software.

At a Cabinet media briefing government said that it had “approved a policy and strategy for the implementation of free and open source software (FOSS) in government”http://www.tectonic.co.za/wordpress/?p=1377

Thanks to the Jennifer Bell on the civicaccess discussion list.