Grace Mugabe and the case of her PhD

via ▶ Grace Mugabe and the case of her PhD by RFI 24 September 2014

Grace Mugabe, the First Lady of Zimbabwe, was awarded a doctorate in the Faculty of Social Studies at the University of Zimbabwe on Friday. Newsday, a Zimbabwe daily paper, notes that Mrs. Mugabe had previously struggled in the past to get a bachelor’s degree. It added that no documents have been found yet that she recieved a Master’s Degree, the second step to obtaining a PhD. RFI’s Laura Angela Bagnetto spoke to Rejoice Ngwenya, the head of COMALISO, a public policy think tank in Harare, who says that issuing PhDs to politicians has been a trend in Zimbabwe of late:

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