By Staff Reporter
THE 44th graduation ceremony at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) was held Friday amid pomp and fanfare despite earlier attempts to have it stopped.
A UZ lecturer had taken urgent legal action to block the institution’s August 15 graduation event, accusing the administration of rushing to award degrees, diplomas and certificates despite serious flaws in exam results caused by an ongoing lecturers’ strike.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is Chancellor of all State universities, presided over the ceremony at the Mt Pleasant campus, where he capped a total of 6,918 graduands. These comprised of 3,674 females (53%) and 3,244 males (47%). Of this figure, there were 5949 undergraduates, 938 postgraduates, two Master of Philosophy and 29 Doctor of Philosophy (PhDs).
The 44th graduation ceremony ran under the theme, “Commercialising Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Graduate Towards an Upper Middle Income Economy.”
Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Secretary Walter Chikwana was among graduands and was conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the Faculty of Law.