The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Fee (ZACC) has opened a fraud investigation into ‘Prophet’ Walter Magaya after Unisa confirmed it didn’t confer any diploma to him.
The diploma got here underneath scrutiny after Magaya submitted it to the Excessive Court docket of Zimbabwe to problem his disqualification from working for ZIFA president.
He was barred from the race for not possessing the required 5 O’ Degree passes however argued that ZIFA’s guidelines allowed for “any equal instructional stage.” As proof, he offered a Nationwide Diploma in Advertising and marketing, reportedly issued by Unisa in October 2015.
Request for Paperwork
ZACC has formally written to ZIFA, requesting all paperwork Magaya submitted when making use of to contest final month’s ZIFA government committee elections. The fee has additionally approached the Judicial Service Fee to acquire data from Magaya’s Excessive Court docket problem, the place he contested ZIFA’s resolution to bar him for not assembly the minimal qualification of 5 O-Degree passes.
‘Prophet’ Magaya’s Questionable Diploma
The investigation, which started on January 31, focuses on a advertising and marketing diploma that Magaya claims to have earned from the College of South Africa (UNISA). Nonetheless, UNISA has refuted his claims, stating that it has no file of him as a pupil or graduate.
“UNISA has no file of Walter Magaya as a pupil or graduate,” the college declared in an announcement on January 29. “Any certificates he presents as being from UNISA is subsequently fraudulent.”
Magaya had submitted an authorized copy of the alleged diploma—verified by Waterfalls police—as proof that he certified increased than the required O-Degree passes.
A widely known spiritual determine, Magaya is the founding father of the Prophetic Therapeutic and Deliverance Ministry and the proprietor of Yadah Stars, a crew that competes in Zimbabwe’s Premier Soccer League.
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