Ekurhuleni appointment raises serious questions

“AT THE time, the senior manager (Communications and Media) was Mr Themba Gadebe, who served until 2020. How then does Mr Mbengashe claim senior management experience dating back to that period?”

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The implications of the appoint-ment have begun to reverberate across local political circles.

A formal set of questions has been directed at Ekurhuleni’s political leader-ship by opposition councillors, includ-ing inquiries about the oversight role of the council in verifying qualifications and why the appointment was ratified despite glaring discrepancies. One par-ticularly troubling issue concerns the job advert’s wording.

The advert ambiguously refers to a “postgraduate degree... or equivalent NQF Level 7 Qualification, which is inconsistent with the National Qualifi-cations Framework, where a postgrad-uate degree typically sits at Level 8 or higher. Critics argue this ambiguity may have been intentional — designed to blur eligibility requirements and favour a pre-selected candidate.