“Someone Is Getting Fired”: Jobseeker Stumbles Across Nton-Nton Manager Vacancy, SA Stunned
- A South African jobseeker browsing the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality jobs portal stumbled across a bizarre listing titled 'Nton Nton Manager'
- The directorate column displayed gibberish letters, prompting the stunned viewer to film the screen in disbelief
- Tech-savvy South Africans who saw the clip had a field day identifying what went wrong with the listing
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A South African jobseeker got more than they bargained for while scrolling through the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality employment portal. Instead of finding a standard vacancy, they stumbled across a listing that stopped them dead in their tracks: a managerial position titled "Nton Nton Manager."
The directorate column alongside the listing displayed the string of letters "dhgbdnbg," which made no sense whatsoever. The viewer, clearly caught off guard, recorded the computer screen and laughed in disbelief at what they were seeing.
Buffalo City Municipality's unusual job listing
The clip shared on the @newsnexussa TikTok account on 28 October 2026 spread quickly, drawing thousands of amused viewers who could not believe a government jobs portal had published something so out of place. It did not take long for those with a technical background to offer an explanation. The listing appeared to be test data that had been created during the setup or training phase of the portal's database and was never meant to go live. Somehow, it slipped through and made it onto the public-facing site.
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The consensus among those in the know was straightforward: someone forgot to remove placeholder entries before the portal went live. For everyone else, it was simply a welcome moment of comic relief in an otherwise frustrating job search landscape.
Watch the TikTok video here.
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Mzansi reacts to the mystery vacancy
South Africans in the comments could not resist poking fun at the blunder, while others calmly explained what had gone wrong:
@Joseph_letsoalo wrote:
"They forgot to delete test data."
@webhutt_ngingu_sonpisi said:
"Programmers will understand 🫡."
@Anele_Potelwa explained:
"Very normal for test cases during pre-production for database setup. Or he/she was actually training someone on how to upload to the job board and mistakenly published it."
@Nhanhla🇿🇦 confirmed:
"Came across this ✅."
@tangent.c added:
"That is clearly test data🤦 🫡."
@Thamie joked:
"🤣 Someone is getting fired."
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