Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni turned down an honorary doctorate degree from Dubai based Dubai Leadership Summit.
Speaking to the Daily News, Manyenyeni said:
I knew my turn would surely come. I spent the last few years laughing when people were receiving these dubious degrees, so I will not accept it now. An honorary degree is an honour when it’s coming out of a proper institution, it is earned out of service but these degrees are a mockery to Zimbabwe.
Manyenyeni’s decision to turn down the offer comes at a time when Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo said government will introduce a law to punish people receiving degrees from unaccredited institutions. Moyo said the law would apply retrospectively. Cabinet has since approved the Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Bill, 2017.
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