This life with Nthabi Nhlapo | Fake eyelashes are one thing, but a fake degree?

In light of the Thabi Leoka scandal, Nthabi Nhlapo writes that when women fall, it sets black women back many years and falsely signals that we might not be ready to be in positions of power. 

There’s something peculiar about human behaviour.

While many of us claim to be independent thinkers, we tend to subconsciously succumb to pack mentality when the right conditions are met. This happens in any situation where there is a social script that is followed – and at the moment South Africans seem to be following a script of faking degrees.