Chihuri graduates with PhD
HARARE – Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri now has a PhD from the Mount Carmel Institute of Business Intelligence. According to reports the police chief authored a thesis titled “The History of Policing in Zimbabwe”.
Dr Chihuri was among 48 graduates, 45 of them undergraduate and three PhDs, who were capped at a colourful ceremony held in Harare at the weekend. His thesis, analyzing policing trends from pre-colonial, colonial, to the post-colonial era, will be officially launched as a fully-fledged book on September 25.
Commenting on the thesis, the Rector for Mount Carmel Institute in Zimbabwe Professor Mufaro Gunduza said:
“It was a very beautiful research that he did and it will create an indelible legacy not only to the police force, but to the nation at large. The book is groundbreaking and we do not have anybody that has researched on the area.
“It will make regional impact in our institutions as far as policing is concerned. It was well-written, it is fresh, exciting and covers the gap that has been yawning.”
Mount Carmel is registered in Zimbabwe with the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development. It started operating in Zimbabwe in 2011, but was already established in South Africa.
The institution offers certificates, diplomas and Masters degree in Business Intelligence, Economic Intelligence and Strategic Leadership. In Zimbabwe, Mount Carmel Institute is affiliated to Chinhoyi University of Technology.
It is also an affiliate of the International University of Management in Namibia, Cambridge International College (UK), Walter Sisulu University (South Africa), University of South Africa, World Association for Business Education (New York) and Virtual University of Pakistan.
The other PhD candidates who graduated together with Dr Chihuri were Zimsec officials Dr Timothy Chiuye and Dr Samuel Makore.
Last year First Lady Grace Mugabe ignited controversy after obtaining a PhD from the University of Zimbabwe within three months of enrolling.
The Speaker of Parliament declined a petition by students in the country who were calling for a parliamentary probe into the scandal.
