• Political violence and intimidation need to be dealt with as part of the holistic electoral reform programme [political activists]. • Election time is the worst of all times in the country. There is fear that the next election will bring a new wave of violence [political activists and women]. • The next election must be held under international supervision [male participant]. • The election management system is what gives birth to a nation’s leadership, and if the system is flawed, the wrong people find themselves at the top “Zimbabweans must choose their own leaders” [male participant]. d. Media reform • There is information blackout for rural people and there is need to open the media environment to allow players to invest in information [political activists]. e. The civil service • The education system must be totally revamped [youth group]. • Access to official documents is a cause for concern [women’s group]. • The civil service needs to be reformed so that it can begin serving the people [male participant]. f. The traditional leadership • The traditional leadership is a cause for concern. They interfere with the political and property rights of the villagers [women, political activists, youths]. • Traditional leaders have no power or control over ethnic property such as land belonging to villagers and must stop black-mailing villagers or threatening to take land from an individual simply because he has refused to support a political party [political activists]. • The traditional leadership frustrates the villagers. “If they stay for long, they begin to think they own the people. They have a problem of mentality. They need to be transformed” [male participant]. • Traditional leaders take instructions from politicians [male participant]. • There must be reforms to protect freedom of worship because church leaders do not want to be forced into traditional rituals [church group]. • Traditional courts cannot be an alternative to other measures and traditional leaders cannot be involved in truth recovery as they had participated in violence. They are no longer chiefs but political appointees; appointed by a minister [named] then salaried “for their crimes”. They cannot be trusted with the truth [unanimous]. ii. Accountability • All people who participated in the political violence must be brought before the courts. However, only a reformed police force and judiciary can handle the prosecution. “Maoko ese ane tsvina ngaapiswe.” [“All dirty hands must be burned.”] [elderly participant]. iii. Truth recovery • Because of the state of the judiciary and the police force, other measures to recover the truth should be considered such as the truth commission which was used in South Africa. “A commission is better because of its flexibility and the possibility of Taking Transitional Justice to the People – Outreach Report 83