Zim university professor arrested over Grace Mugabe's 'fake' PhD

Zimbabwean anti-corruption investigators on Friday said they had arrested a university professor over the suspected fraudulent awarding of a doctorate degree to former first lady Grace Mugabe.

Levi Nyagura, the vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission following an investigation into the PhD.

It emerged that Grace was awarded the degree by the university in 2014 after just months of study.

Doctorates typically require several years of full-time research and writing.

Nyagura has been arrested. We cannot have people who award fake degrees, Goodson Nguni, a ZACC commissioner told AFP over the telephone.

The professor will be charged with abuse of office, he said, refusing to say whether Grace also faces arrest.