TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Executive Summary .................................................................................................. 1
The Context .................................................................................................................... 4
Rationale for the Transitional Justice Policy ....................................................................... 5
The Symposium Objectives and Design ........................................................................... 8
Objectives: ...................................................................................................................... 8
Expected Outputs ............................................................................................................ 8
Programme design: .......................................................................................................... 8
Conference Proceedings .................................................................................................. 10
Day 1: ............................................................................................................................. 10
Welcome and Opening Remarks ...................................................................................... 10
Key Remarks by the Chairperson of the NPRC, Retired Justice Selo Nare .......................... 11
Zimbabwe’s Transitional Justice Journey ........................................................................... 12
The Case for Transitional Justice Policy for Zimbabwe ...................................................... 13
Plenary Lessons and comments raised .............................................................................. 13
Panel Discussion: From Policy to Practice ........................................................................
14
Group Observations and Reflections ................................................................................ 15
The right to Know............................................................................................................. 15
Right to Justice ................................................................................................................. 15
Guarantees of non-recurrence.......................................................................................... 15
Right to Reparations ........................................................................................................ 15
Critical Reflections on the Hard Choices for Zimbabwe ................................................... 16
DAY 2: ............................................................................................................................ 17
Site Visits: Memory and Community Healing ................................................................... 17
Site Visits: From Sites of Atrocities to springs of Healing .................................................... 17
Entumbane Reintegration Camps ..................................................................................... 17
Telling Painful Stories: Memories of the never die ............................................................. 17
Key Note Address: The Matabeleland Question ............................................................... 19
By Siphosami Malunga ..................................................................................................... 19
A response to Sipho's Speech by Pathisa Nyathi ............................................................... 22
Day 3: Policy Reflections ................................................................................................. 23
Reflections ....................................................................................................................... 23
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2018 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY SYMPOSIUM REPORT