KWEKWE City Council has donated vast tracts of land to Midlands State University (MSU) for construction of a $20 million law faculty facility.
BY BLESSED MHLANGA
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa said MSU had already been given the land which was now awaiting development as the fastest growing university in the country spreads its faculties throughout Midlands Province.
“We are looking to develop Kwekwe and allow it to have a faculty of the MSU. We agreed that the faculty of law will be moved to Kwekwe with the Vice-Chancellor [Ngwabi Bhebhe] and that land has already been allocated by council and it will be developed,” he said.
Mnangagwa said this while addressing provincial heads of government, Joint Operations Command (province) and councillors at Kwekwe Civic Centre.
Bhebhe confirmed plans by his university to spread its wings into Kwekwe, but could not be drawn into discussing details of the rollout.
MSU, which has an enrollment of over 22 000 students, has already spread to Zvishavane.
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Mnangagwa also said Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazurus Dokora had been given $20 million which will be used to build new schools.
He urged Dokora, who had accompanied him, to spare some of the money for schools in Midlands.
Kwekwe mayor Matenda Madzoke said the coming-in of a university faculty in Mbizo would greatly increase revenue flows and development in the city.
“We know the effect on the economy of our city which a university faculty will bring. This is why the land was donated and not sold,” he said.
