The indefinite suspension of Nyagura !!! thank you President Mnangagwa.


On a chilly morning, in the northern suburbs of Harare in Mt Pleasant, I woke up to some shockingly good news of the suspension of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor (VC) Levi Nyagura. Not as a gesture of an evil celebration of the fall of a man, but the birth and restoration of constitutionalism, administrative justice and rule of law in the body politic.

Grace Mugabe being conferred a controversial doctorate by her husband Mr Mugabe during a graduation ceremony at UZ

Following the unprecedented, 2017 November 20 mass students’ demonstration against both Nyagura and Mugabe, the petitioning to Zimbabwe Anti Corruption by UZ sociology department, the letter by Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) to authorities, the handing of a letter to President Mnangagwa`s office by myself and various contributions from students, lecturers and intellectuals , WE as students, would like to thank ZACC, President Mnangagwa, Vice President Chiwenga and the entire cabinet for efforts to listen to the plight of students from the University of Zimbabwe by disassociating UZ from the person of Nyagura who had causes serious levels of despondency and fall of academic standards due to his propensity for nepotism, corruption and prebendalism.

To Professor Amon Murwira, we also welcome you to the new post with wide open arms in the new office due to your fetish and passion to restore sanity among universities evidenced by the peeling off of all incompetent staff members as you have demonstrated by starting with the man in question.

Zimbabwean education system has been on stake due to visible, open and clear unprofessional contact in the academic system, the case of UZ and Zimbabwe School Examination Council (ZIMSEC). The impacts of compromising the sacrosanctness of academic legitimacy are far reaching and do not affect the old, but the young and the future for confidence and trust is corroded at an international level thereby making our education uncompetitive. The rule of law equally will be white elephants in an event where a mere Vice Chancellor can dilly dally, riff raff or shilly sh-ally with national laws and get away with it.

Despite these good strides, we also wish to have the government more tolerant to the students` voice and give them space to demonstrate and petition as enshrined in the national constitution, the events at National University of Science and Technology (NUST) leave a lot to be desired, we abhore violence on students and an intolerant police force, we wish to be heard!!!

The struggle continues, victoria ascete`, A luta` continua

The Students` Commissar

Cde Treasure Basopo

Zimbabwe National Students Union.