  I have spoken to Indian businessmen from India and all have told me that after a few years in this country the first lesson they learned is   Never trust a South African Indian  This problem was one well known for many years in local circles. I.e. that Indians in South Africa are never to be trusted.  In fact there is an old apartheid era joke about them  How do you know an Indian is lying? His lips are moving And a subcontinental Indian calling a SA Indian a liar sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me. In my experience with Indians, I find lying to be endemic to their culture as a whole; fully accepted and even expected.    Working with them in the past, I found that many of them grossly overstated their abilities, argued points that they knew were wrong based on premise (never argue with an Indian because he will never concede that he is wrong), are loathe to admit that they don't know something, spent time that they should have been working for their employer cooking up schemes to start restaurants/hotels/IT businesses etc, etc. Some even had the gall to run side businesses and try to hide he fact that they were doing so, even though they were obviously taking outside business calls very frequently on their mobile phones.    Anyway, I'm very fortunate to make the hiring decisions for my company here in East Asia. When I receive a resume from an Indian, it goes directly in the trash without so much as a second glance. The qualifications and educational credentials on Indian resumes should be enough to show any halfway intelligent person that Indians are for the most part pathological liars. Even more fortunately, I'm not subject to affirmative action or racial quotas as they don't exist here and I do what is best for my firm by screening the Indians out.