Government determined to deal with qualification fraud
4 Mar 2015
Government has taken note of the increased reporting of fraudulent qualifications and is determined to flush out public servants who misrepresent their academic qualifications.
In a bid to ensure accelerated service delivery, it is important for all government departments; nationally, provincially and locally to guard against employing people with misrepresentations in their CV's. An environment conducive to entrenching clean governance, requires no less from public servants. All government departments, their entities and agencies must implement public service regulations to deal decisively with applicants holding fraudulent qualifications, said Acting DG of the Department of Communications, Donald Liphoko.
"The incidents of misrepresentation, which appear to be on the rise, will not be tolerated as they impact negatively on the reputation of the country, its institutions and the credibility of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Claiming qualifications that one does not have in the pursuit of employment opportunities using fake qualifications is fraudulent, and clearly a criminal offense.
"We would like to caution people who are embellishing their CVs with fraudulent academic qualifications that the government is committed to rooting out such behaviour.