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Facebook trips up AG candidate - report

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 08 Sept 2013

A senior South African Revenue Services (SARS) auditor had his chances of becoming the next auditor-general (AG) foiled by "inappropriate" postings on his Facebook profile, reports the Sunday Times.

The newspaper reports Avhashoni Ramikosi was reprimanded in Parliament when MPs expressed discomfort about Facebook postings they deemed inappropriate for someone vying for the prestigious job.

The report says Ramikosi was taken to task by MPs on Wednesday during an interview for the position. Apparently Ramikosi's Facebook wall carries "his strong political views" alongside pictures of bare-breasted young women and sexually suggestive cartoons.

In one Facebook status update, Ramikosi allegedly makes mockery of the establishment of Mamphela Ramphele's Agang, asking what the black middle class had to say about the party's emergence and whether Agang was "just another wasted space like COPE".

The DA's John Steenhuisen who led the charge told the Sunday Times that the AG position is "one of those positions where you have to be squeaky clean, because any inference that you are not could impact on the credibility of a supreme body of the country."

Ramikosi allegedly told the newspaper the pictures landed on his Facebook wall after he was tagged by a friend.

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