{"id":5365,"date":"2014-10-01T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2014-10-01T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:13:58","slug":"mugabe-taken-to-court-over-wife-graces-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/mugabe-taken-to-court-over-wife-graces-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe taken to court over wife Grace’s PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) is reportedly set to take President Robert Mugabe and the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to court over the awarding of a controversial doctorate of philosophy degree to the country’s First Lady.<\/p>\n

The PhD was granted to Grace Mugabe, a 49-year-old former typist in the president’s office, a few weeks ago – just months after she enrolled for the course.<\/p>\n

Grace was capped by her husband along with other 3 274 graduates.<\/p>\n

According to Voice of America, Zinasu said it would file a court case on Wednesday challenging Mugabe and the UZ administrators to publicise information regarding the awarding of the PhD to Grace.<\/p>\n

Zinasu said it decided to take the matter to court after failing to get information on the doctorate from the vice chancellor and other UZ senior officials…<\/p>\n

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The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) is reportedly set to take President Robert Mugabe and the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to court over the awarding of a controversial doctorate of philosophy degree to the country’s First Lady. The PhD was granted to Grace Mugabe, a 49-year-old former typist in the president’s office, a few weeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[4207,4212,3273,427,257,426,254,4693,4210,4211,4213,4686,4208,421,4209],"class_list":["post-5365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africax-africa-news","tag-controversial-doctorate-of-philosophy","tag-grace-mugabe","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-university-of-zimbabwe","tag-uz","tag-uz-administrators","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-national-students-union","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zinasu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}