Cabinet approves $1 billion grant to establish Robert Mugabe University

Addressing journalists in the capital today, Minister of Higher Education, Professor Jonathan Moyo announced that Cabinet has approved a grant of $800m towards the construction of The Robert Gabriel Mugabe University, and a grant of $200m towards the establishment of the University’s Endowment Fund for Research and Innovation.

Moyo said that the university will be situated 36km North West of Harare in Mazowe District, Mashonaland Central. The Responsible Authority of the University is the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Foundation, whose Founding Trustees are President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady, Grace Mugabe. He further stated that the university will be a STEM institution whose academic thrust will concentrate on critical STEM areas.

It will also constitute of The Robert Gabriel Mugabe Institute which he said will focus on research, historical collections, library and studies on transformative and revolutionary leadership, thinking and attributes that shaped the man, Robert Gabriel Mugabe.