Why This Year’s UZ Graduates Might Struggle Abroad

📅 Published: August 17, 2025

📰 Source: thezimbabwean

Curated by AllZimNews.com

Yet beneath the celebration, there was an unease that would not vanish with the tossing of mortarboards.

This was not an ordinary graduation.

It was one born in the shadow of a lecturers’ strike, dragged through a courtroom, and stained by questions that a judge’s ruling could not wash away.

To the casual observer, the story might seem simple: lecturers demanded better pay and conditions, went on strike, and when the university decided to proceed with graduation, they went to court to try to stop it.

The case was dismissed as “moot,” the ceremony went ahead, and the graduates walked out into the world with their degrees.

But stories that seem simple at first often conceal deeper fault lines.

The real story is about reputation, credibility, and the way suspicion clings to documents in the international arena.

For this class of graduates, the dispute may follow them long after the confetti has been swept away.

The lecturers’ strike at UZ was not a minor disruption.

It stretched across crucial months.

When final-year students needed guidance, supervision, and assessment.

Projects were left half-marked.