Participants' demand for institutional reforms strongly considered reforms in the security sector. There
was a clarion call for the removal of the heads of the current security organs such as the ZRP, ZNA, ZPS and
the CIO which are not compliant with transitional justice processes. Participants also viewed service chiefs
in Zimbabwean security institutions as having dirty hands and cannot serve in the GNU. Keeping them in
government would create an invidious position of the perpetrator and victim in one government.
Participants observed that reforms in the security sector would help in professionalizing the security
institutions, making them understand their mandate and that officers with dirty hands should be removed
and public confidence restored in security institutions. There were suggestions of rebranding of the
security institutions along the South African lines which went as far as changing the police uniforms, color
of vehicles, curriculum for training to build people's confidence in these institutions.
Participants also noted the need to transform traditional leadership institutions. It was observed that the
majority of the traditional leaders took part in or directly sponsored and condoned violence.
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