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News24 reports that a former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) executive, who was found to have lied about his qualifications, has lost his bid to appeal a court order that he must pay back R5.7m received from Prasa since 2010.
The South Gauteng High Court on Friday dismissed "Dr" Daniel Mthimkhulu's application for leave to appeal a September judgment, in which it had found that he had misrepresented his qualifications and, as a result, had secured a promotion. Judge Leoni Windell noted that her previous finding that Mthimkhulu had made fraudulent representations had not been made lightly and that another court would not come to a different conclusion. According to Windell's judgment, “it is common cause that Mr Mthimkhulu, at the time of his appointment, did not hold a National Diploma and Bachelors' Degree from the VUT and only had a matric qualification.” But Mthimkhulu's curriculum vitae (CV), as found in his personnel file, clearly stated he had obtained the VUT degrees in 2010, and held a 2010 doctoral degree in "engineering management". Mthimkhulu told the court that people in Prasa who were intent on destroying his career had fabricated the CV and placed it in his personnel file. Windell had ruled in September that she was “satisfied that Mr Mthimkhulu falsely represented to Prasa that he held a national diploma and a bachelors' degree from the VUT. This false representation induced Prasa to appoint him in the position of Executive Manager: Engineering Services."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kyle Cowan at News24
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