University posts Grace Mugabe's suspect PhD thesis.
The polarising Grace Mugabe; The PhD's authenticity was questioned because her thesis was not published alongside others at the time. The document was only published online in January this year.
Grace married Mugabe in 1996. The online publication of Grace’s research follows a petition by Sociology Department academic staff last month. The lecturers described the awarding of the doctorate as “scandalous”, saying it violated the established procedures and policies of the country’s oldest university.
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One of the hallmarks of Grace Mugabe’s spending was during a trip to the French capital, Paris, where she spent an astonishing USD120, 000 in 2003. She is nicknamed “Gucci Grace.” The.
REUTERS, 26th JANUARY, 2018- The University of Zimbabwe has published former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s PhD thesis after an anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether the wife of.
HARARE - The University of Zimbabwe has published former First Lady Grace Mugabe's PhD thesis after an anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether the wife of ousted President.
The professor will be charged with abuse of office, officials said. A copy of the 226-page doctoral thesis was published last month following public calls for Grace to be stripped of her PhD.
Ms Mugabe’s thesis appeared online only in January even though her husband had awarded her the qualification in 2014 while he was chancellor of the institution. Academics have previously said that repealing Ms Mugabe’s PhD should be the first priority to fix the country’s higher education system damaged by Mr Mugabe’s 37-year rule.
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Mugabe was removed from power in a coup after he fired Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president at the instigation of his wife, Grace, and a faction of ambitious and young politicians loyal to the late leader. Funerals for national heroes are officiated by a sitting president, which would be Mnangagwa, who is now Zimbabwe's leader.
The thesis was only published last month under the name Ntombizodwa Grace Marufu. In the letter, the department cites, the fraudulent awarding of the doctorate degree, threats to members of the sociology department and appointment of substantive chair of the department.
The University of Zimbabwe has released former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s PhD thesis after an anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether the wife of ousted President Robert Mugabe.
The University of Zimbabwe has released former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s PhD thesis after an anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether the wife of ousted President Robert Mugabe was wrongly awarded a doctorate three years ago.
Reading the literature up to 1999 (and quite selectively even for this thesis I would argue), and ignoring the post-2000 literature, means that fifteen years of scholarly work is simply ignored. In this regard, insofar as the academic literature is concerned, the Grace Mugabe thesis could just as well have been written in 2000. In the end, it.
A political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the flawed former First Lady Grace Mugabe's PHD thesis which has just been published online after the department responsible at the University of Zimbabwe had distanced itself from overseeing the study.
Witch hunt over Grace Mugabe’s PhD thesis. Last updated Jan 29, 2018 48,136. A witch-hunt is evolving at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) where academic staff in the Sociology Department are.