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'University of Zimbabwe now a factory of fake degrees'
A storm has erupted at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) after the Association of University Teachers (AUT) issued a damning statement accusing the institution's leadership, under Vice Chancellor Profes...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 17:50hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
Skills audit for Harare council staff
Harare City Council has announced plans to undertake a comprehensive skills audit as part of efforts to address persistent concerns over poor service delivery and a possible mismatch between staff qua...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:48hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
A Step in the Right Direction, but Long Overdue
Zimbabwe's higher education sector has been plagued by a silent but dangerous crisis, the rampant issuance and use of fraudulent qualifications. It is, therefore, commendable that the Zimbabwe C...Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 20:55hrs | 749 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Rise of fake degree phenomenon
IN Zimbabwe, there has been a growing distasteful trend of people who have forged their qualifications, especially certificates, diplomas, bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees.With an unem...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 19:29hrs | 3 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
A Farewell to Prof Levi Nyagura as Vice Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe
Listening to soccer commentary in the 1980s by the likes of the late Evans Mambara, one would either be happy or sad at the final whistle as he would go "It's over, it's over, Dynamos 1, CAPS United 0...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:20hrs | 12 | by Mukushi Mukuru
Judicial officer in court over fake degrees
A TOP official in the Justice ministry who operated a bogus theological college offering fake degrees to unsuspecting people in and around Marondera, was on Friday arraigned before magistrate Rumbidza...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Dzamara has a fake degree'
The Vice President of the Thokozani Khupe led MDC Obert Gutu has accused activist Patson Dzamara of possessing a fake Doctoral Degree.Gutu revealed that during a Twar with Dramara over the Mon...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 09:23hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo organised Grace Mugabe's fake degree?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo risks having his University of Zimbabwe acquired degrees withdrawn if ousted UZ Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura is found guilty of awarding former First ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:16hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo to be stripped of UZ degrees?
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo risks having his University of Zimbabwe acquired degrees withdrawn if ousted UZ Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura is found guilty of awarding former First ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:06hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe launches crackdown on academic fraud
The country's education system is battling to preserve its integrity in the wake of an upsurge in academic fraudsters who are forging qualifications to secure jobs and gain admission into institutions...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe 'fake' degree gets UZ vice-chancellor suspended
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa has suspended University of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor, Levi Nyagura for awarding former First Lady Grace Mugabe a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) under controversia...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Please Robert Mugabe Stop it! Lest we forget
I call upon the African Union, European Union whichever intergovernmental body to stop tolerating this 94 year old man who is crying every day that her wife is being tormented for attaining a fake PhD...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 12:05hrs | 40 | by Knowledge Hakata
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 | | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's PhD must be revoked
Grace Mugabe created so many enemies for herself during Mugabe's reign, and we are likely to witness a lot of episodes on the public scene. If I were Grace Mugabe I would simply lie low till the dust ...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa will never fool us - MDC-T Youth Assembly.
The MDC-T Youth Assembly has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he can not fool them by pretending to be open for democracy yet there is clear selective application of the law in the country....Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa turns down 'fake degree' offer
MDC-T vice-president, Nelson Chamisa has refused to join a bandwagon of well known people who are handed honorary doctorate degrees from obscure universities.Chamisa snubbed once such offer fr...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Fake doctorates: Jonathan Moyo; person to face jail is 'Dr.' Grace Mugabe
It is indeed selective morality: a travesty of justice: it is ludicrous to the highest order. Jonathan Moyo tells us that those who fake degrees or purchase degrees should face jail. By that same logi...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 11:26hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Fake degree holders face jail time - Jonathan Moyo
Government will soon introduce a law that will punish people receiving degrees from unaccredited institutions, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has hinted.Moyo first made t...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fake degrees flood Zimbabwe
Education-hungry and title-seeking Zimbabweans have been warned against acquiring educational qualifications from dubious local and international institutions as they will not be recognised in the cou...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Manager' forges UZ degree
FORGING a University of Zimbabwe Bachelor of Social Work Degree and using it to secure a senior position at a Mutare Non-Governmental Organisation backfired for a city man after being arrested in ...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 15:11hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
Fake degree lands man in the dock
A 30-year-old man yesterday appeared in court facing three counts of fraud after he allegedly used a fake University of Zimbabwe Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Sciences degree to obtain employment a...Published: 25 Mar 2015 at 08:32hrs | | by Fungai Jachi
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 transm...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Shingai Mugochi, A concerned lay Zimbabwean.
Grace Mugabe has finally destroyed Zimbabwe university education
With all respect, people deserve congratulations when they do well. When people work hard, and sweat for it, burning the candle all night long, they deserve the accolades....Published: 14 Sep 2014 at 21:32hrs | 3 | by Farai Nyamuzihwa
Concern over bogus qualifications
The revelation that a well-known university in the United Kingdom is selling degrees has far reaching implications for South Africa. A BBC Newsnight investigation found that the American University of...Published: 05 Nov 2013 at 02:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa employs fake degree holder
The Supreme Court has quashed a Labour Court ruling that a Zesa Holdings (Private) Limited (Zesa) human resources manager's salary be slashed after employing a fake degree holder.The elec...Published: 29 Oct 2013 at 04:02hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Angel denies buying 'fake' online business degree
LONDON - Flamboyant Zimbabwe preacher Prophet Uebert Angel has angrily denied buying a fake online business degree with a 'diploma-mill scheme' that was eventually shut down by authorities in the U...Published: 09 Jun 2013 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake Zim 'Dr' reported to Zambian police for fake degrees
Tinaye Mugadza, the Zimbabwean who was reported to Lusaka police for possessing fake degrees was also convicted in Zimbabwe for a similar offence.According to the Herald Newspaper of Zimbabwe,...Published: 17 Jan 2013 at 12:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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