How to rewrite your CV for South African jobs in 2026 (with examples)

If you're job-hunting in Cape Town in 2026, the single highest-leverage thing you can do this weekend is rewrite your CV. Not redesign it — rewrite it. Most of the CVs landing in hiring inboxes in South Africa right now are the same beige Word template from 2017, padded with corporate phrases, missing the things recruiters actually look for, and full of things that get binned in three seconds. This is the honest version, from someone who has read tens of thousands of South African CVs over the y...