It is disturbing to see the recent trend in South Africa towards people simply lying about their qualifications.  It seems half of the people appointed at the SABC, for example, do not have the qualifications they allege in their CV, whether that is a Matric or a UNISA degree - where in fact UNISA has a record of them failing every subject they ever wrote – it seems that some people have no qualms about putting anything into a CV.  

It is probably because, in many cases, they know that they are going to be given the position, that they have certain friends and political connections that will lead to them getting the position that they are after.  No proper check is going to be done on them and they simply have to put in a few things in their CV so that whoever is arranging the job for them does not look bad in terms of arranging an unqualified person.  The second you are in the job, when subjected to investigation, you of course allege conspiracies, that people are out to get you, call in your lawyers and refuse to respond any further.  That is exactly what happened before Parliament recently with the one SABC lady and we are still reeling from the shock of discovering that Dr Pallo Jordaan did not have the doctorate he claimed.  He was a leading member of the ANC, highly regarded by the media and certainly regarded as an intellectual, who had also awarded himself a Doctorate.  It is a sickness and unfortunately the lack of action against those who have been caught doing it so far is only going to see this continuing to grow.  Of course it does not end there, because next time the “doctor” actually doing your medical operation may also have faked his or her CV and the “lawyer” representing your case may also be another failed UNISA prospect.