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Peter Matika
FORMER Zifa vice-president and interim president, Gift Banda (54) has arrived at Western Commonage Court, where he is set to answer allegations of forging an Ordinary Level certificate.
Banda, also a former Bulawayo councillor and deputy mayor, spent last night at Western Commonage Police Station assisting police with investigations.
Banda has expressed an intention to file papers for the Zifa elections set for early next year. Candidates must, among other requirements, demonstrate they hold five Ordinary Level passes, and it is believed Banda does not possess them.
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) tests in 1986 at Mpopoma High School in Bulawayo yet, at that time, the school, like many others nationally, only offered Cambridge examinations. Zimsec was established in 1996.
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