Golden Jubilee For Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference given up and the country was on a free fall. After the army embarked on a project code named' restore legacy'in 2017 the country had an election on the 31st July, 2018. The election was not as smooth as many expected it to be. The good part is that the one President who had been in power for 38 years did not appear on the ballot papers. This alone brought relief to many people. Before the July elections there seemed to have been relative peace and acceptance of one another in the whole country. The 2018 election was an election with a difference. b. The work before the office People seem to be very sad after the 31st July 2018 elections. The wait and see attitude which was there before the elections is no more and reality is now sinking in people's minds that all the promises made before elections were just but empty promises.The country for some time had been divided into two if not three clear distinct groups. The ruling ZANU PF still divided into two groups that is the Lacoste team and the G40 that is not as visible as it used to be but is still there. The third is from the coalition of opposition parties. These three teams are pulling the country in different directions. This can be seen as both positive and negative at the same time. The office is trying to reconcile the MPs who lost first in the primary elections and later in the main elections with those who won in both primary and main elections. The idea is to avoid a repeat of the blood shed that was experienced in 2008 and also on the 1 st of August, 2018 and 14-16 January 2019. Almost all the MPs who were part of the G40 have come to the office for the process of reconciliation. Some of the G40 cabal as popularly known have joined the coalition of the opposition parties while others have formed their party which is supported by the former President.The reconciliation that the office is looking up to is not going to be achieved in a day but is going to be a long process that needs patience and skill. The office is calling for mature politics in the country where people are free to talk about their feelings and also on the failures of those who will be leading at any given time. The office intends to achieve this by addressing as many stakeholders as possible some of whom are MPs, Traditional Leaders, Partisan NGOs and Churches. To date the office has participated in a dialogue meeting between the Head of State and the Head of the Coaliation group. There was a stale mate where the Head of State wanted the Head of the Coalition group to accept that he was the 43

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