Zengeza 1. Constituency: Zengeza West 2. Province: Harare Metropolitan 3. Venue: Zengeza Primary School 4. Date: 12 February 2010 5. Participants: No.: 80 Sex: 52% female Age: 15–56, average 30 years From: human rights activists, women activists, traditional leaders, spirit mediums, government employees, political activists and youths 6. Recommendations i. Institutional reforms • There is an urgent need to reform all institutions of government, particularly the security sector, civil service, social services, parastatals. The police needs urgent reform since it did nothing to protect women from violence such as rape [women]. • Some government institutions need vetting. • The media must be reformed, and laws like AIPPA and POSA must be repealed. [political activists]. • There is need to rebuild the collapsed education sector, reform the judiciary system, particularly the Attorney-General’s office [youths, political activists]. ii. Reparations • There can never be healing without reparations for Operation Murambatsvina losses and political violence [women, youths and political activists]. • The victims of political violence need rehabilitation. • The perpetrators must pay for the damages, but where they are poor, the sponsor must pay. The state must pay as the last resort, particularly for damages related to Operation Murambatsvina [participants]. iii. Reconciliation • The work of the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration was commended, but the leadership of the reconciliation should not be left in the hands of perpetrators of political violence. • Reconciliation mechanism must be led by women and victims of political violence, independent people trusted by the whole society [participants]. iv Truth recovery • The Organ is ignoring the need to talk about what happened in the past, and the need to recover the past as a way to go forward [political activists]. • A credible truth-recovery process is one which is led by credible civil society institutions, not by government officials. Taking Transitional Justice to the People – Outreach Report 27