Cabinet doubles Mugabe varsity budget
Cabinet has more than doubled the budget for the proposed $1 billion Robert Gabriel Mugabe University, from an estimated $400 million in the institution’s initial plan, it has emerged.
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Cabinet has more than doubled the budget for the proposed $1 billion Robert Gabriel Mugabe University, from an estimated $400 million in the institution’s initial plan, it has emerged.
Ken Yamamoto – Mr. Jonathan Moyo has no record of achieving anything in government – or successfully executing anything significant. You don’t have to go far to see that Mr. Moyo’s ideas are all hat and no cowboy; all froth and no beer; all sizzle and no steak!
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) is alarmed and worried at the wanton abuse of public funds following the award of close to US$1bn to President Mugabe to build a private university.
Opposition parties have slammed government’s plans to construct a $1 billion state-of-the-art university named after President Robert Mugabe. The parties argued that the learning facility — to be owned by the Robert Mugabe Foundation (RMF) — is a waste and misuse of taxpayer’s money at the First Family’s benefit.
Jacob Mafume – It is therefore irrational to invest a billion dollars in a whole new University instead of developing the existing ones making them competitive institutions of higher learning, providing quality education to those who enrol. At present most universities are like prisons where the student wishes to leave as soon as they can, the state has failed to invest in the comfort of the learner yet priority is given on massaging an individual’s ego.
Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government has approved a $1 billion grant to a university to be built in honour of President Robert Mugabe, a Cabinet Minister disclosed.
Will any top Zimbabwe officials actually send their children to the new Robert Mugabe university that’s being set up in honour of the 93-year-old president?