{"id":51339,"date":"2023-11-07T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/university-of-south-africa-denies-awarding-honorary-doctorates-to-namadingo"},"modified":"2023-11-07T18:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:30:41","slug":"university-of-south-africa-denies-awarding-honorary-doctorates-to-namadingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/university-of-south-africa-denies-awarding-honorary-doctorates-to-namadingo","title":{"rendered":"University of South Africa denies awarding honorary doctorates to Namadingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The University of South Africa UNISA denies awarding honorary doctorates to Musician Patience Namadigo and others. Socilalite, Pemphero Mphande and Karim in the mix. Nigerian woman attributed with scamming Malawian \u2018celebrities\u2019 for 10 million Malawian Kwacha per PhD<\/p>\n<p>The University of South Africa (UNISA) has formally denied ever awarding any Malawian a honorary doctorate degree. <a name=\"aswift_6_host\"><\/a>This comes in the wake of social media celebrity Pemphero Mphande announcing that he had followed in the footsteps of musician Patience Namadingo and businessman Mansoor Sharrif Karim by being awarded a honorary degree by the institution. The University posted the statement on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The University of South Africa UNISA denies awarding honorary doctorates to Musician Patience Namadigo and others. 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Nigerian woman attributed with scamming Malawian \u2018celebrities\u2019 for 10 million Malawian Kwacha per PhD The University of South Africa (UNISA) has formally denied ever awarding any Malawian a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,25],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-51339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-featured","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>University of South Africa denies awarding honorary doctorates to Namadingo - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The University of South Africa UNISA denies awarding honorary doctorates to Musician Patience Namadigo and others. 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