Warning for professor who gave student plagiarised work

A leading academic at the University of South Africa (UNISA) who gave a student plagiarised work and helped him to fraudulently gain a masters degree and eventually a PhD has received a final written warning from the university, valid for 12 months, writes Don Makatile for The Sunday Independent.

Professor Rothney S Tshaka, who heads the department of philosophy, practical and systematic theology, took the work of his then research assistant, Dr Hlulani Mdingi, who has since left UNISA, and gave it to Elias Monhla, who was reading for a masters degree in theology at the University of Pretoria at the time. The masters was conferred by Pretoria on Monhla in April 2015. Monhla then took the plagiarised masters to register for a PhD at UNISA, where he was supervised by Tshaka and graduated with a PhD.

In his sharing of work plagiarised from Mdingi, Tshaka also helped another student, Felicia Inez Padayachy, towards her PhD thesis submitted to her supervisor, Tshaka, in July 2014. As with Monhla’s work, Padayachy helped herself to copious articles, word for word mostly, from work originated by Mdingi and submitted to Tshaka in 2014.
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