IN GOOD FAITH: Shifting goalposts
Sometimes employers bend the job-advertisement and interview processes so they can get the candidate they want — but the courts can stop them
A lot of prominent South Africans have made the news over the past few years because their qualifications were fake or heavily embroidered. Ellen Tshabalala, the one-time chair of the SABC, did not complete the degree and diploma she claimed to have. Politico Pallo Jordan lacked some of the qualifications with which his CV was studded. So, too, some SAA top brass: neither board chair Dudu Myeni nor one-time acting CEO Nico Bezuidenhout had the qualifications listed on their CVs. But best known has to be the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng — appointed to the job despite not having matric, stipulated as a basic requirement. Specialists warn that “faking” is a growing trend in SA and that employers must check the authenticity of claims by job applicants. But there’s another side to the story: sometimes bosses change the rules about qualifications to fit the applicant they want to hire.Applicants included two women, both members of the HPCSA and already employed by the department, who wanted p...
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