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'Doctor of Nothing: Zimbabwe's elite and the theft of knowledge'

In the hallowed halls of academia, a doctorate stands as a towering monument to intellectual endurance, sleepless nights, existential crises, and a few thousand cups of coffee brewed stronger than most relationships. In Zimbabwe, however, …

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Only PhD holders should lecture at university

WHEN I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I celebrated because we had spent four hard years researching and writing our theses while we w…

Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 05:42hrs | | by Jairos Kangira

No to Doctorate Factories

The recent clarification by our Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Amon Murwira, that an earned doctorate (PhD or DPhil) is the minimum qualification for normal appointment to a universi…

Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 18:27hrs | | by Enock JONATHAN

Nyagura suspension: Reviving calls for academic freedom, prudence

UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor, Levi Nyagura was recently suspended from office by President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa.According to a Press statement by the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Developme…

Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 05:11hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Chiwenga represents the 'New Disorder' not New Dispensation

While the nation awaits eagerly in anticipation of a typical Chief Justice Maraga (Kenya's Chief Justice) style and caliber of overturning presidential election results from our apex court on Tuesday, it is highly unlikely that what happen…

Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata

Grace Mugabe PhD thesis does not meet requirements

THE University of Zimbabwe has very clear, detailed and solid regulations pertaining to its PhD programme as contained in General Academic Regulations for Postgraduate Degrees of the University of Zimbabwe: Regulations for the Master of Ph…

Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 08:39hrs | | by Kirk Helliker

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 doctorate aspirant,  the question of avail…

Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 18:20hrs | | by Munyaradzi Rukanda Mhaka

If not Nkosana, then who do we vote for?

I AM a good wife, really I am. In fact, not to beat my own drum or anything, but if there was a scale of wifehood and my husband was asked to judge, I suspect he would give me 8 out of 10 if not more. I mean, I am after all the one who, af…

Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 13:51hrs | | by Mai vaHazvinei Mushonga

Magaya and the Mysterious Black Bag

My humble knowledge of the things of GOD The Almighty, Creator of all things, tells me that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are indeed just that, Spirit and they dwell everywhere and every time. So it came as a huge sur…

Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 12:13hrs | | by Bonzo reSVOSVE

Walter Magaya a Grand Plan deployee

The disgraced pastor of PHD Ministries Walter Magaya's visit to Bulawayo ostensibly to parcel out land to his Shona kinsmen exposes the long-held belief that the Shona hegemony employs the church to further its Grand Plan in Matabeleland.I…

Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 15:19hrs | | by Ackim Mhlanga Gasela

Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries doing a good job

Prophetic Healing and deliverance Ministries, led by the charismatic Prophet Walter Magaya should be commended for supplementing government efforts to create employment and deliver housing to Zimbabweans in line with the Zim-Asset. PHD Min…

Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 15:25hrs | | by Chadzimura Mhute

That PhD, the undoing of Mugabe and Zanu-Pf

It has been called many names from microwave PhD with regards to the speed of its remarkable completion, sexually transmitted due to its being from hubby to Mrs, miracle PhD because its recipient is known for her previous academic failures…

Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 15:05hrs | | by Shingai Mugochi, A concerned lay Zimbabwean.

Grace Mugabe, Bring Back Our PhD Now!

Of all the scandals that ever rocked Zimbabwe, this PhD scandal by President Mugabe and his shopaholic wife raises eyebrows at a global scale. The public has spoken and an outcry keeps pouring in. Mugabe has Grace Mugabe never studied for …

Published: 02 Oct 2014 at 05:24hrs | | by Charles Njaivhana

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