LETTER: Beware of reporting claims made by parliament
One candidate for the parliamentary budget office directorship appears to have used the title ‘Dr’ for over a decade before being awarded a PhD
Your report on the process to appoint a new director of the parliamentary budget office is welcome in drawing attention to that matter (“Dumisani Jantjies tops list for Parliamentary Budget Office director (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-11-01-dumisani-jantjies-tops-list-for-parliamentary-budget-office-director/)”, November 1). However, it fails to adequately explain or interrogate the claim that applicants for the post “were found to be fit and proper”.
For example, one such candidate appears to have used the title of “Dr” for over a decade before being awarded a PhD. Such a misrepresentation is a very serious matter in academia. This is publicly available information, yet was not considered by the subcommittee, thereby demonstrating the vacuousness and legal inadequacy of the process followed...
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