TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary ........................................................................................................ 1
1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 2
2.0 Official Transitional Justice Process in Brief ............................................................ 2
2.1 The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC)....................................... 2
a. Operationalisation of the NPRC ....................................................................... 2
b. Challenges facing the NPRC ............................................................................. 2
c. Way Forward for the NPRC .............................................................................. 3
d. Civil Society Interventions ................................................................................ 3
2.2 The Independent Complaints Mechanism (ICM) ........................................................ 3
a. Establishment of the ICM ................................................................................. 3
b. Violation of the Constitution ............................................................................ 4
c. Interventions by Civil Society ............................................................................ 4
2.3 The Ethics and Integrity Committee (EIC) ................................................................... 4
a. Establishment of the EIC ................................................................................... 4
b. Interventions by Civil Society ........................................................................... 5
3.0 Other Transitional Justice Processes ........................................................................ 6
3.1 The Commission of Inquiry into the 2018 Post Election Violence ................................ 6
a. Investigations by the Commission ..................................................................... 6
b. Interventions by Civil Society ........................................................................... 6
c. Way Forward after the Montlanthe Commission ............................................... 6
3.2 The National Dialogue Process ................................................................................... 7
a. Elusive Dialogue Process .................................................................................. 7
b. Way Forward ................................................................................................... 7
3.3 The National Symposium on Transitional Justice Policy in Zimbabwe .......................... 7
3.4 African Union Adopts the Transitional Justice Policy Framework ................................. 8
4.0 The Role of Independent Commissions in Transitional Justice ................................ 9
4.1 The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission ................................................................ 9
4.2 The Zimbabwe Gender Commission .......................................................................... 9
4.3 The Zimbabwe Media Commission ............................................................................ 10
4.4 The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission .................................................. 10
5.0 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 11
STATE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN ZIMBABWE
2018 REPORT
NATIONAL
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
WORKING GROUP
ZIMBABWE