Readers might have observed last week's moving ceremony in Hiroshima, when Barack Obama made history by becoming the first US president to visit the city America hit with an atom bomb in 1945 .Less noticed, perhaps, was the tall, angular woman at his side throughout the event: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the daughter of former president John F Kennedy and the US ambassador to Japan.The South African ambassador to Japan, Mohau Pheko, carries considerably less political clout than Kennedy, and fewer qualifications.Last year, the Financial Mail exposed that Pheko was the bearer of what is, alas, becoming a national characteristic: false qualifications. Back in 2009, she was appointed from obscurity to the plumb post of ambassador to Canada. The authorities in Ottawa did a background search and found that her claimed PhD did not exist.The usual course would have been to recall her home, but her masters did something far more peculiar. They had in place a top-flight professional diplom...
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