Fake varsity still operates

BUSINESS AS USUAL: The Johannesburg campus of Anoin ted University PHOTO: Mashoto Lekgau
BUSINESS AS USUAL: The Johannesburg campus of Anoin ted University PHOTO: Mashoto Lekgau

THERE is confusion over the case against a fake university operating in Johannesburg under the banner of Anointed University.

The complaintwas lodged by the Department of Higher Education and Training after Sowetan exposed the institution following its move to confer "honorary doctorates" on musical couple Ihashi Elimhlophe and his wife Ebony.

Readers also contacted Sowetan claiming the institution had defrauded them of sums as high as R25000 for degrees which were not recognised by the authorities.

Yesterday, it was business as usual at the school's campus in downtown Johannesburg.

Earlier in the day, Gauteng police spokesman Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng said the owners of the "university", Nigerian nationals "professors" George Aladeoba and his wife Kate, had been arrested. But the couple flatly denied it.

A police spokesman at Johannesburg Central police station last week said the case was transferred to the commercial crimes unit for investigation, and referred all queries to the provincial police communications service.

It is the third branch to handle the case since it was initially opened at Pretoria Central police station last month.

Yesterday, Kate answered her husband's phone and said he was in South Korea, and that everything was "okay at the university".

She also denied that either she or her husband were ever arrested.

Shortly afterwards a man who identified himself as Philly called this reporter and asked why we had called the "professor".

mashotol@sowetan.co.za

 

 

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