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Fin24 reports that the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) said in a statement on Tuesday that it would continue with the work of auditing the qualifications of its staff, following the conviction of its former head of engineering, Daniel Mthimkhulu, on three counts of fraud.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced on Monday that the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court had found Mthimkhulu guilty on three counts of fraud after it was established that he had misrepresented his qualifications to get the job. The case has been remanded to late February for sentencing. Mthimkhulu claimed that he had a master's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Doctorate in Engineering Management from the Munich Technical University in Germany. The Prasa statement advised that due to Mthimkhulu's misrepresentations of qualifications, the entity had suffered financial prejudice as his salary had been increased from R1.6 million to R2.8 million. "Prasa is currently going through a skills audit process to root out the falsification of qualifications, if any. This judgment is another milestone in Prasa’s quest to clean up the entity," the statement indicated.
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