Students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have gone on strike, saying that they will not write their exams until President Robert Mugabe steps down.<\/p>\n
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Following a military takeover last week, Mugabe has been fired as head of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In an address to the nation yesterday, he was widely expected to announce that he would step down but made no such announcement. The party had set a deadline of noon today for him to step down or face impeachment.<\/p>\n
The university has since cancelled the exams after the students demanded to be addressed by Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura, according to The Zimbabwe Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Students are also demanding that the university should recall the degree which was awarded to Grace Mugabe in 2014.\u00a0The first lady graduated with a PhD from the University of Zimbabwe\u2019s Faculty of Social Studies Department of Sociology. Claims that Grace did not write a thesis and that she did not take the required period of time to complete it, have since surfaced. – Read the article<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) have gone on strike, saying that they will not write their exams until President Robert Mugabe steps down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,122],"tags":[175,28,115,59,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}