Monthly Monitoring Report
January 2024
Major Highlights
Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme
Source: The Standard Newspaper
40 years after the Gukurahundi massacres in the
undue interference in the process. Whereas the
Matabeleland and Midlands Provinces, Zimbabwe
NPRC has a clear constitutional mandate spelt
still suffers from the memories of these heinous
out in Section 252 to deal with Gukurahundi,
attacks.
the
traditional leaders have no such mandate, let
Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme is a
alone formally and clearly defined Terms of
show of “collective resilience and determination to
Reference.
confront our history with courage and compassion”.
mandates
While the President claimed that the government is
traditional leaders, together with the veil of
‘ensuring transparency and accountability in this
secrecy in which the process is envisioned to
process’ the manuals and processes to be used to
take place, has eroded public confidence in its
engage victims and the community have not been
ability to provide reconciliation, justice and
publicly shared. The process has been criticised in
healing to victims. This lack of confidence is
the media for lacking transparency and not being
echoed in the sentiments of former Speaker of
victim-centred.
National
Parliament, Lovemore Moyo who suggested that
Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC),
the process should follow the model of Rwanda
which has a constitutional mandate to deal with the
and South Africa. The budget for the process
issue
has also not been made public.
President
and
the
The
Mnangagwa
sidelining
extension
of
said
of
this
the
that
mandate
to
This
and
lack
Terms
of
of
clearly
defined
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for
traditional leaders has raised concerns over the
impartiality of the process and the possibility of
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