
Council of Social Workers Lifts Ban on ZEGU Programs
Harare, Zimbabwe – MINISTER July Moyo managed to resolve the impasse between the Women’s University of Africa (WUA) and the Council for Social Workers in Zimbabwe (CSWZ) over gaps in the institution’s training programs.
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The tiff between the WUA and the CSWZ has been raging for years following the latter’s 2021 decision to ban all social work programs run by the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) and the WUA.
The CSW argued that the said universities were failing to adhere to several regulatory laws and policies which include the Zimbabwe Minimum Standards for Social Work Training and the Social Workers Act.
Council of Social Workers Lifts Ban on ZEGU Programs
In 2021, the then Labour and Public Service Minister Paul Mavima had to intervene in the impasse after retracting the bans arguing that due processes were not met.
Last year, the Higher and Tertiary Education Ministry also moved in and quizzed where CSW was deriving powers to ban training programs although the former and the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE) are legally vested with such authority.
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The events come on the back of an outcry by stakeholders demanding the trimming of power exercised by voluntary professional associations taking advantage of their groupings to thwart training by upcoming institutions in a bid to perpetuate monopoly in various professional spheres.