A BULAWAYO woman has been fined $2 000 for writing a
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary Level examination on
behalf of her friend.
Faith Moyo (30) wrote an English Paper 1 on behalf of
Nobesuthu Dube (34), who has since gone into hiding. Moyo pleaded guilty to
contravening section 35(d) of the Zimsec Act chapter 25:18 — impersonating
another person — when she appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Mrs
Ulukhile Ndlovu.
She was fined $2 000 or 90 days in jail.
Prosecuting Ms Magret Takawira said Moyo was arrested on
June 30 after an invigilator and the deputy headmaster at Mncumbata Secondary
School in Nkulumane 12 suburb suspected foul play as her credentials did not
match those of the candidate.
“On June 30 at around 0920hrs the deputy headmaster at
Mncumbata Secondary School Mr Kumbulani Nkiwane was called in by one of the
invigilators Ms Patience Hlabangana to the examination room after she had
noticed that the accused person Faith Moyo was writing English Paper 1 on
behalf of Nobesuthu Dube, a private candidate.
“On receiving the message Mr Nkiwane investigated the case
and then ordered the accused person to stop writing the examination,” said Ms
Takawira.
She said police arrested Moyo and alerted the Zimsec
Bulawayo province office after she admitted that she was writing the
examination on behalf of her sister and later said she was writing it for her
friend.
Last year in October, fifteen Form Six pupils at Gebhuza
Secondary School in Hwange were arrested after they shared an alleged leaked
Economics Paper 3 question paper.
In 2018, fifteen Regina Mundi High School pupils who were
blacklisted for alleged examination cheating took Zimsec and the Minister of
Primary and Secondary Education Professor Paul Mavima to court challenging the
nullification of their November 2017 results.
One of the pupils, believed to be the mastermind, is
alleged to have mobilised her classmates to contribute $3 each towards raising
money that was used to purchase copies of the November 2017 Examinations
question papers for English Paper two and Mathematics Paper two.
In 2017 a woman was arrested for academic fraud after
writing an Ordinary Level Mathematics examination for another candidate at
Irisvale Secondary School in Matabeleland South’s Umzingwane District.
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