background that Commissioner Chigwedere was sworn in and
appointed Deputy Chairperson of the National Peace and
Reconciliation Commission on February 24, 2016, a position she holds
up to this day.
Commissioner Charles Masunungure
Commissioner Reverend Charles Masunungure has been a pastor for
the past 22 years and has worked in various pastoral capacities in the
Family of God Church before he became a Regional Overseer and
member of the Family Covenant Church Provincial Council, National
Council and Governing Council in 2016. He is a holder of a Certicate
in Systemic Therapy (Connect-Zimbabwe Institute of Systemic
Therapy-1997), BSc in Counselling (Zimbabwe Open University-2005),
MSc in Peace, Leadership and Conict Resolution (Zimbabwe Open
University-2016) and a Certicate of Competency in Dialogue,
Negotiation and Mediation (Africa University-2017). He is a Marriage
and Family Psychotherapist and a peace practitioner who mediated
between political parties in the Bindura North and South
Constituencies alongside the SADC Observer Team in the 2013
Harmonized Elections.
Commissioner Masunungure served in the Zimbabwe Republic
Police, initially as a police ofcer at Mkoba Police Station, Gweru
(1990 to 1997) then Provincial Chaplain for Midlands, Mashonaland
Central and Harare (1998 to 2002) and as the Deputy Chaplain
General at Police General Headquarters (2003 to 2004). He retired on
gratuity with an exemplary conduct classication in 2004. His duties
and responsibilities in the Zimbabwe Republic Police included
complaints handling, investigations, community relations and liaison,
crime records management, mediation and dispute resolution,
counseling, administration and processing of deceased estates,
solemnization of marriages and policy design and training for
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