Levi Nyagura, the vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC<\/span>) following an investigation into the PhD.<\/p>\n It emerged that Grace was awarded the degree by the university in 2014 after just months of study.\u00a0 Doctorates typically require several years of full-time research and writing.<\/p>\n \u201cNyagura has been arrested. We cannot have people who award fake degrees,\u201d Goodson Nguni, a\u00a0ZACC<\/span>\u00a0commissioner told\u00a0AFP<\/span>\u00a0over the telephone.<\/p>\n The professor will be charged with abuse of office, he said, refusing to say whether Grace also faces arrest.<\/p>\n Grace Mugabe\u2019s apparent desire to succeed her 93-year-old husband prompted the army takeover that saw Robert Mugabe ousted from power in November last year.<\/p>\n A copy of the 226-page doctoral thesis, titled \u201cThe Changing Social Structure and Functions of the Family\u201d was only published last month following public calls for Grace to be stripped of her PhD.<\/p>\n Critics had argued that Grace, 52, had not actually studied or undertaken research to earn the doctorate.<\/p>\n She was personally capped by then-president Mugabe, who was also the chancellor of the university.<\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Zimbabwean anti-corruption investigators said on Friday they had arrested a university professor over the suspected fraudulent awarding of a doctorate to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Levi Nyagura, the vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) following an investigation into the PhD. It emerged that Grace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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