Simelane's 'shoddy' CV under scrutiny

Anyone suprised by this?

Climb on board the gravy train buddy. Don't worry about doing something for SA like umm your job. As long as you are my brother it is a sweet ride. Next stop 5 star hotel in Vegas!!!!

but surely all this is of no importance? .. the only ability he needs is a taste for expensive things, cigars, single-malt, and big black cars. Work the trough guys. Ayoba.

Simelane is targetting racist crimes that were previously annulled by racists prosecutors. That is why the DA are so obssessed with him. Go figure

I wonder if Advocate Simelane knows that word has a function to check spelling? And whether it offends his culture to use it?

am not supprised d.a is loosing it why cant they focus on something different just like cope they always try to attack our president let me tell you something da and cope only a.n.c can recall our president you can relax for now untill 2014

well, well, well, I wonder if any real decisive action will come out of this from the anc or are we going to get the usual politicking to justify this dodgy appointment then hope the media fire dies down & Menzi will keep his job...viva democracy!

eish bro...i'll just hide for a year or so...make a fat killing of a salary and find another job before they realise i was so crap at my job....hey simple..this is fun..heh heh heh.....sorry i won't giggle anymore...stuff the poor..they don't pay my salary...they just tick the box every few years or so....wonder if this dude ever knew what the deans merit list was...probably doesn't know dean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh please, Bluntly Spoke. Get your head out of the racist gutter mate! The DA want to see Simelane out because he is the poster boy for cadre deployment and there is a strong likelihood that he will smooth over JZ's arms deal past with his position in the NPA after JZ's term.

I guess we could add the following to every political story in SA.

"Quam parva sapientia mundus regitur" is Latin for “with how little wisdom the world is governed”

"Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt?" is Latin for “what good are laws when there are no morals?”

Good one JZ - soon we will be a real kakistocracy!

Another fine example of how stortkop and his inner circle of fools deal with matters of national importance.
Perhaps Simelane has a fine daughter stashed away somewhere?

Blunty, it's time you consulted your phsycologist. Oh! sorry you can't, he's just phoned to say he's found your head! All 10grams in weight!

Simelane “rose” to become a director-general within 10 years of starting off as an article clerk. Impressive…..!??? No.

Simelane’s stratospheric career trajectory shows that he is probably quite a pliable kind of client: someone whom his patron(s) could trust to keep those Zuma files with the 700 odd corruption/money laundering charges safely locked away in his office safe. Someone who would also diligently obey his patron(s) suggestion of a tactical leak of those same files, if and when they need to “recall” Zuma.

Is his rise really so fast...???.in fact if you ask radebe the disaster man of justice..he would tell you transformation too slow...so from now on all articled clerks or completed pupillage, those who finish will go to senior partner or silk after passing admission exams...if you disagree you wil be confined to robben island...white people SHALL serve 20 years for the same privilege...sound fair, not to mention risky as hell..but the disaster will come to the fore.......looookout!!!!!

Simelane completed his BProc degree in 1993 and LLB in 1995. In June 2005 he was appointed director general of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.

Jobs for pals. The main reason for the deterioration of public services. The conviction rate is now the lowest in the world. Makes you think, doesn't it.

They actually need a CV?

Not really white trash. They only ask for it to look intelligent and to pretend there were others in the mix. They really believe we are all fools.

Yup Jac, from a University that does not really exist.

Spelling errors on a CV is really splitting hairs. Come on, let's be honest - the real issue is Mr Simelane's impartiality and integrity. That's all we should be concerned about.

@Mark Robertson solly you is heppie with da spelsing erras. Canz I have a job in yor cumpany. I have a dagrie and is good at inventing BS stories.

The position is one of supposed high standards. Those standards mean no spelling errors of words he would have cut his teeth on at Varsity.

The guy's a felon with an arrest warrent out for him in the USA; anywhere else he wouldn't be allowed to take office.

This is only a relevant debate if one accepts that the appointment was based on the CV. I think all reasonable people, no matter what their politics, know this was not the case.

Mendacious Menzi. Kinda has a ring about it, no?

Aagh DA again Nocense, the only language they understand is whites male only. DA have a colonialist mentality.

Come on guys have a heart. How in the world did you expect him to notice the spelling mistakes.
You only learn the spell words like curriculum, qualification and pupillage when you get to high school.

Yes Phila, whatever numbskull!

Phila, that would be Nonsense I guess, a word meaning no - sense. I would hate to see your CV, and your persecution mentality.

Plaese, giev dis Silemane guy a braek. After all, he was edumacated in Zimbawbe. And, he honeslty thinks dat he desevres the post of head of the NPA.

What do u expect from an af appointment?

The CV had no hand in this guy getting his job. All he needed to be able to do is say yeeeeeeeeeeesss baas Zuma, and nod his head frantically.

Machel Collin

Educated in Zimbabwe indeed! I am sure all the grammatical errors are an attempt to satirize the Zimbabwe’s education system. However, the result of this very poor attempt is it falls flat. We know the reality which is that the system in so many ways is ahead of SA's in producing quality graduands.

There is a deliberate and blatant attempt to underrate a system that is way more demanding than the South African system just because it is Zimbabwe. Yes, it is a dysfunctional state at the moment and there are current challenges with the strikes and loss of some teachers. Nevertheless, those who are still learning are subjected to a rigor that not many schools in SA can boast of. Zims can spell-you have to be able to make it through the "O" and "A" levels and more so for university. Let us have a measure of balance in these forums.

Why is there such a preference for Zim teachers if they were not a product of system that weeds the chaff from the wheat? We will defend a system we are quite happy to have benefitted from and which has put us in good stead wherever we have gone in the world.

Look at home first before being overly critical of neighbours then you will have a better perspective.

C*nt spell, can kow-tow... Aggg. JZ doesn't have time to READ! He's a pal... NEEEEEEXT!

For someone who has so much to prove given his Educational background, the least President Zuma could have done is encourage ADC Simelane to be professional about this. It makes us all look bad!

Why not ask the "honorable minister "Disa-star RADEBE" why he is also known as 10%.........

white trash on February 9, 2010, 7:01 pm

“......they actually need a CV?”

White Trash, indeed they need a CV.

CORRUPTION VERIFICATION

Guys, just remember, the ANC thinks they can insult people by calling them 'educated'. Only right that they’d choose the dumbest idiots, i.e. Zuma, Simelane, Malema, Shivambu, Cele, etc to key positions.

Wonder if the CV was hand written as well?

Mini Mee... or maybe jst a muddy pawprint on a piece of newspaper.

Moloko not on newspaper, on the back of a KFC burger box.

:)

Still, lets not make fun of the situation. Simelane is a lazy man (to lazy to use spell checker) that does not take pride in himself (poorly constructed CV), his work (as per Ginwala), his employer (TAX payers) or his boss (by submitting a shoddy CV).

Thinking about it, the same can pretty much be said about Zuma as well.

Mukai is quite correct about the Zimbabwean education system.

Mugabe inherited the excellent Rhodesian structures and enhanced them for everybody using donor funds throughout the 80's and into the 90's. Even in 1965 the literacy rate here was above 85%.

Even before the collapse in 2000 the system was failing because of the reductions in donor money and the diversion of cash to the DRC war, war veterans and the like.

Now it's just a joke, but everybody is still literate and those older folk who benefited from the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean education system are very much in demand right around the world, especially in SA

@thethinkingman... In demand? South African Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Maphisa-Nqakula said: "My appeal to you Zimbabweans, please engage and dialogue in order to resolve your differences. Always remember that South Africa will never be your home, your home is in Zimbabwe, so resolve your problems and go back to your home."

Zim Education System; at the best of times 70% of the population rural peasants, who were/are illiterate. Yes, some well educated people; English language skills iffy a lot of the time. The much vaunted A & O levels, were certainly uneven amongst the people with whom I worked, and the younger ones were really poorly educated, even with O levels.

Nothing wrong with appointing your own cadres.....ask the DA, it works for them in the Western Cape.

Why is anyone with half a brain surprised that this has happened? All Zuma cares about is feathering his own nest and everyone else, ANC included, is just a tool for that.

All Zuma's doing is covering his own behind, pure and simple.