A former Umgeni Water technician, Sheldon Naidoo, has been ordered by the Pietermaritzburg High Court to repay the company more than R2 million in wages

A former Umgeni Water technician Sheldon Naidoo has been ordered by the Pietermaritzburg High Court to repay the company more than R2 million in wages he received during his employment there after it was discovered he obtained the position using fake qualifications.

When Sheldon Naidoo applied for a position as a process technician in 2016, the degree he’d put up when he first joined Umgeni Water, was sent to the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) for verification. But the university came back to say it had no record of the degree.