Search / Doctorate
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2734 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dirty City Mayor lifts lid on cholera
NEW Harare mayor, Herbert Gomba says the central government and Zanu PF should take responsibility for the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed the lives of 21 people, alleging that a caretaker c...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
How heroes became victims of politicians
LAST week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Conary Mabuto narrated how the Rhodesian forces massacred over 100 refugees at Chikumbi Camp in Zambia and how one could be ZIPRA...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:49hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec searches for new director
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) is searching for a director.This follows the decision by its board last year to dismiss some of its directors, including Isau Nhandara, its ch...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 13:20hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's statement made him sound like that false Pentecostal prophet
Last Friday, Nelson Chamisa declared that he would be challenging his electoral loss to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and even promised his supporters that change was still coming. His latter statement is unbel...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | 1368 | by Tawanda Majoni
Harurwa consumed as delicacy in Masvingo but Claude Maredza says, 'there is more that people should know'
Harurwa is an insect, consumed as a delicacy mostly in the Masvingo province of Zimbabwe. The insect is naturally light green in colour. It's usualy prepared by roasting and salting it. In Masvingo Ha...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 14:24hrs | 3677 | by Enos Denhere
Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic po...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | 301 | by Reason Wafawarova
Command this and that and Zim Airways: A lighter look
AFTER much brainstorming and scratching of heads on how to turn around Air Zimbabwe's failing fortunes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet had acquired a few bald heads.The airline was sad...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | 510 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Massive vote-rigging rocks Zanu PF
ZANU PF primary elections ended farcically yesterday amid reports of massive vote-rigging, bloody clashes and the defeat of party bigwigs, while some losing candidates seized and burnt the ballot pape...Published: 01 May 2018 at 14:11hrs | 3409 | by Staff Reporter
TelOne sets up research lab at Nust
STATE-OWNED telecommunications operator, TelOne, yesterday launched a new research laboratory at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo as part of efforts to assist devel...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:06hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe minister of foreign affairs 'daft, inarticulate', says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former Higher Education minister Prof Jonathan Moyo has said it is a disgrace that Zimbabwe has a foreign affairs minister who is "as daft and as inarticulate" as Dr Sibusiso Moyo.P...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 22:35hrs | 6375 | by Staff Reporter
Students protest over DStv, food
Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) students yesterday staged a demonstration against poor living conditions and lack of entertainment — DStv.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the HIT's...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 12:09hrs | 2166 | by Staff reporter
The dictator's dilemma: How to succeed at succession
Have dictators finally had their day? From retirements to coups d'etat, presidential term limits and opposition candidates winning elections, democracy appears to be making progress across Africa. But...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | 492 | by Joe Devanny, Marco Jowell
We vote using our brains dear Misihairabwi-Mushonga and never pantie politics again!
This is just gutter politics of the highest order! Gutter politics that is below the belt in the sense of the word. We cannot be told to vote for women just because they are women. We vote for people ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 18:45hrs | 3371 | by Nomazulu Thata
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura still under investigation
University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura who is facing charges of fraudulently awarding a doctorate degree to former first lady Grace Mugabe has been placed under further investig...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 16:53hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Macheso PhD drive heightens
AFFABLE entrepreneur and Nash Paints boss, Tinashe Mutarisi, will today approach education chiefs at the University of Zimbabwe with their proposal for musician Alick Macheso to be awarded a doctorate...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 17:32hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
UZ drops in African rankings
Zimbabwe's oldest institute of higher learning, the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), which is hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons, particularly the manner in which former first lady Grace Mugabe w...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:38hrs | 4674 | by Staff reporter
Macheso degree campaign gathers momentum
The campaign to lobby the University of Zimbabwe to accord sungura kingpin Alick Macheso an honorary doctorate degree has gathered momentum.The campaign has mobilised 20 000 endorsements throu...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:37hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's arrest might backfire for Mnangagwa
Liberation war fighters are piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrest former first lady Grace Mugabe over her attainment of a doctorate degree under controversial circumstances but ana...Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 11:54hrs | 8386 | by Staff reporter
Call for Grace Mugabe's arrest
Liberation war fighters are piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to arrest former first lady Grace Mugabe over her attainment of a doctorate degree under controversial circumstances but ana...Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 11:12hrs | 2737 | by Staff reporter
Macheso deserves an honorary doctorate
Fans of Alick Macheso are lobbying the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to confer an honorary doctorate on the sungura kingpin for his contribution towards development of the music industry in the country....Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 15:25hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku appeals UZ interview failure
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) constitutional law lecturer and opposition politician, Lovemore Madhuku, has challenged the decision to deny him the post of dean of the faculty of law at the institution....Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2021 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's decision is right
The decision that was taken by MDC-T deputy leader, Thokozani Khupe to part ways with the violent MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa, is a positive development which will highlight her potential in leading a...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 14:03hrs | 3122 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
'Chiwenga seeking untold riches by making an excessive claim'
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has challenged vice president Constantino Chiwenga's $5 million defamation suit against him, saying the words that he said do not amount to ...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 11:07hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Fake PhD: Chiwenga, Jonathan Moyo $5m suit on hold
THE High Court has reserved its ruling on whether or not the $5 million defamation lawsuit pitting Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and fugitive former Cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo shou...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:29hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Chiwenga- case: Judgement reserved
The High Court has reserved its ruling on the case in which Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga is seeking to lodge defamation charges against Professor Jonathan Moyo for insinuating t...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 13:24hrs | 2830 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's case collapsing
The State's case against University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura, accused of corruptly irregularly awarding a PhD degree to wife of ousted president Robert Mugabe, is crumbling....Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 13:33hrs | 9380 | by Staff reporter
Nyagura stirs fresh controversy
University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura has stirred fresh controversy after hiring a junior lecturer who recently obtained a doctor of philosophy (PhD) as the dean of the Law Faculty after...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 11:34hrs | 3615 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku flunks UZ job interview?
University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Professor Lovemore Madhuku's bid to lead the institution's Faculty of Law as dean flopped after he flunked an interview conducted by a panel headed by Vice-Chancell...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 06:12hrs | 2062 | by Staff reporter
'Nyagura was never suspended'
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira says University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice chancellor Levi Nyagura was never suspended, declaring that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa has the power to...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 14:28hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe not yet off the hook
HARARE provincial magistrate Mr Elisha Singano has issued a fresh warrant allowing the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) to search and seize all documents relevant to its investigations of wh...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:26hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Relief for Grace Mugabe
Former first lady Grace Mugabe's PhD saga has taken a new twist after the High Court reversed a ruling by a lower court giving investigators powers to search and seize all documents relating to the pr...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 06:44hrs | 8897 | by Staff reporter
Nyagura reports for duty despite 'suspension'
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) council chairman, Buzwani Mothobi has come under fire from other council members, who accused him of defying a resolution to suspend vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura over forme...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1848 | by Staff reporter
'Arrest Grace Mugabe over academic fraud'
Welshman Ncube's opposition MDC has called for the arrest of former first lady Grace Mugabe for fraudulently obtaining a doctorate that she apparently obtaining a doctorate that she apparently receive...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 06:20hrs | 1907 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's PhD supervisor investigated
One of the lecturers who supervised Grace Mugabe's PhD thesis is reportedly being investigated by the Zimbabwe anti-graft agency.According to the state-owned Herald newspaper, University of Zi...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 09:00hrs | 1593 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: ZACC probes Mararike
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAAC) is investigating University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturer Professor Claude Mararike on allegations of abuse of office for fraudulently awarding a Doctor of P...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:53hrs | 2049 | by Staff reporter
The real coup in MDC-T
My People First things first, my deepest condolences to the Tsvangirai family for the loss of the family head, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.By extension, I would also like to proffer my condolenc...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:13hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, army commanders tensions grow
TENSIONs are gradually intensifying between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the military clique surrounding him, amid revelations that the army is exerting overbearing influence on the executive....Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 16:12hrs | 6829 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Govt urges dialogue
GOVERNMENT yesterday spoke for the first about Mrs Grace Mugabe's PhD with Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira urging dialogue between the...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:53hrs | 3709 | by Staff reporter
UZ Department of Sociology says Grace Mugabe PhD is fake
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe's Department of Sociology has broken silence concerning the awarding of former First Lady Grace Mugabe's doctorate degree saying the qualification was fake and earned without th...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 20:25hrs | 4079 | by Staff reporter
Prof Nyagura hits back on Grace Mugabe PhD
University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura has hit back at lecturers in the department of sociology for challenging the awarding of a doctorate to former First Lady Grace Mugabe cla...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:47hrs | 2603 | by Sytaff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD an 'academic fraud'
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe's controversial University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Doctor of Philosophy degree, which was finally published last week almost four years after graduation, has been described as ...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 15:56hrs | 6876 | by Staff reporter
Controversy continues to escalate in Grace's PHD
Controversy has continued to mount in former First lady Grace Mugabe's flawed doctorate amid indication that soon after the University of Zimbabwe decided to publish her thesis online some schol...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 11:19hrs | 3770 | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe's PhD cannot be revoked, too many army bosses have fake degrees
A political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the reason why the University of Zimbabwe is at difficulties in revoking the flawed former first lady Grace Mugabe's Doctorate degree is because there...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 07:31hrs | 16558 | by Stephen Jakes
NUST to have substantive vice chancellor
THE National University of Science and Technology (NUST) is set to have its substantive vice chancellor by end of February after a successful candidate was recommended for appointment to President Emm...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Grace Mugabe's doctorate
Former first lady Grace Mugabe's record-time PhD granted by the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) four years ago only for the thesis to be published this week on the institution's website, has courted furth...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 15:12hrs | 2934 | by Staff reporter
UZ Vice Chancellor threatens to fire staff over Grace PhD
University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura has reportedly turned to harassing lecturers who have questioned former First Lady Grace Mugabe's doctorate awarded controversially in 2014, th...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 14:19hrs | 12251 | by Staff Reporter
The UZ's most eccentric and calculative PhD genius!
Acquiring a doctorate is no mean feat, even for the highly endowed academic minds. Once attained, the prestigious status cannot easily be wished away nor can it be shrouded in secrecy. To any doctorat...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 18:20hrs | 3168 | by Munyaradzi Rukanda Mhaka
Grace Mugabe's PhD thesis published - finally
Almost four years after she submitted it, the PhD thesis of Zimbabwe's former First Lady Grace Mugabe has been released for all to see.The 226-page document, entitled The Changing Social Struc...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 12:59hrs | 11807 | by BBC
She turned him down free touristic, free boarding in Germany: NUST Professor insults her hard!
A woman of 64 years, I have been officially pensioned beginning of January 2018 at the same time can continue working for another 5 years if I so wished. My age will inform that under normal circumsta...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 4441 | by Nomazulu Thata
Load More Stories
