MSU student caught writing Zimsec exam for friend

The Gweru law courts

 A 19-YEAR OLD female accounts student at Midlands State University masqueraded as a registered Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council candidate and wrote an Advanced Level Accounts Paper 3 for her friend, a magistrate heard on Monday.


Gweru magistrate, Judith Taruvinga, was told that the teenager, Charity Makokota, of Nehosho in Gweru, sat for the Accounts paper at Ascot High on behalf of her friend, Kundai Blessmore Manyumbu.

 Makokota, who appeared before Taruvinga on Monday for breaching a section of the Zimsec Act, was convicted on her own plea of guilty. She escaped a custodial sentence and was fined $150.

The complainant in the matter was Zimsec represented by its regional manager, Paul Danana. For the state, Helen Khosa told the court that on Friday last week, around 2PM at Ascot High School, Makokota presented herself at the examination centre masquerading as a genuine Zimsec candidate.

The court heard that Makokota wrote an Accounts examination Paper 3. Khosa said that while the examination was about to end, the invigilator Bernard Ziwani checked Makokota’s national identity card and discovered that the face on the ID card did not look like hers.

Khosa said Ziwani was moving around the room while invigilating when he discovered that Makokota was using her friend Blessmore’s identity card.

The court heard that Ziwani quickly alerted Zimsec officials at the school who then came into the examination room and fished out Makokota.
 
Zimsec officials interviewed Makokota and she revealed that she wrote the paper on behalf of her friend Blessmore who on that day was waiting for her just outside the school area.

Makokota was then handed over to the police.- CHRONICLE