High Court orders UZ to release results

Zim Now Writer

The feud between University of Zimbabwe and its students has taken a new twist after High Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi, ordered the former not to withhold the latter’s results on account of non-payment of tuition fees.

The UZ Students Representative Council took the institution to court after tuition fees were increased with some faculties required to pay over half a million dollars in local currency.

The steep rise in tuition fees led to mass demonstrations and boycott of classes with students crying foul leading to the feud spilling into the High Court.

The students were further irked when UZ restricted access to the examination results via its online platform if the students had not settled the arrears of tuition fees they had gazetted.

On Friday, Justice Chitapi ordered UZ to release examination results to relevant students with a payment plan levied on the previous semester before the fees were hiked.

In his ruling, Justice Chitapi also interdicted the fees hike by UZ pending the court case in which the students are arguing, through their lawyer Tendai Biti, the increase was unconstitutional and unjustified.

“Pending the delivery of judgment in Case No. HC 6194/22 reserved by Hon. Chitapi on 30 November, 2022, the 1” respondent shall not enforce tuition fees set out in ordinance No. 63 dated 6 September, 2022.