{"id":10683,"date":"2013-09-27T08:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2013-09-27T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:28:44","slug":"s-african-police-colonel-denies-faking-his-academic-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10683","title":{"rendered":"S. African police colonel denies faking his academic certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8741\" alt=\"saps4\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman who resigned amid allegations that he had a fake matric certificate has denied his qualification is invalid, The Star reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is not true that my certificate is fake,&#8221; Colonel Vincent Mdunge was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am currently consulting my legal team and will take this to court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said it would have been impossible for him to serve in the police for 27 years with an invalid certificate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, Colonel Jay Naicker said the allegations against Mdunge surfaced when the criminal and academic records of SA Police Service employees were checked. Mdunge subsequently resigned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mdunge told The Star&#8217;s sister newspaper Isolezwe he did not quit because of the pending criminal investigation against him. He claimed it was a coincidence that he resigned at the same time that the allegations surfaced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Naicker told Sapa he did not know of Mdunge&#8217;s intentions to take the matter to court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s his decision and he doesn&#8217;t have to notify us of it,&#8221; said Naicker. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman who resigned amid allegations that he had a fake matric certificate has denied his qualification is invalid, The Star reported on Friday. &#8220;It is not true that my certificate is fake,&#8221; Colonel Vincent Mdunge was quoted as saying. &#8220;I am currently consulting my legal team and will take this to court.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;S. African police colonel denies faking his academic certificate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6528,205,210,6529],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-fake-matric-certificate","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-vincent-mdunge"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}