Prasa's former head of engineering was sentenced to 15 years of direct imprisonment on three counts of fraud, Cape {town} Etc reports.
Daniel Mthimkhulu was promoted to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's (Prasa) position of head engineer on 1 April 2010.
The position required (at minimum) an engineering diploma or degree.
Mthimkhulu's CV stated that he held a national diploma in mechanical engineering from the Vaal University of Technology, a 'degree in mechanical and maintenance engineering' from the University of the Witwatersrand and a doctorate in engineering management from the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
However - in reality - he only had a matric certificate.
