A demand for R3-million in damages for alleged plagiarism by two academic doctors has been served on the University of Fort Hare (UFH) by a former masters student.
The two education faculty academics, Dr Jane Abongdia and her husband Dr John Wankha Foncha, are accused of using Nomalizo Mazwayi’s work without her knowledge and presenting it as their own in an edition of the Journal of Social Science published in 2014. Both have since left the university.
In an e-mailed statement on Monday, UFH spokesman Kgotso Moabi confirmed the university was served with papers.
- “For the full story get a copy of the Dispatch or subscribe to our e-Edition for the complete newspaper with jobs, classifieds, crosswords, TV schedules and back editions”.
R3m demand for plagiarised publication
The two education faculty academics, Dr Jane Abongdia and her husband Dr John Wankha Foncha, are accused of using Nomalizo Mazwayi’s work without her knowledge and presenting it as their own in an edition of the Journal of Social Science published in 2014. Both have since left the university.
In an e-mailed statement on Monday, UFH spokesman Kgotso Moabi confirmed the university was served with papers.
- “For the full story get a copy of the Dispatch or subscribe to our e-Edition for the complete newspaper with jobs, classifieds, crosswords, TV schedules and back editions”.
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