NYANGA SOUTH 1. CONSTITUENCY: NYANGA SOUTH 2. PROVINCE: MANICALAND 3. VENUE: HOLY CROSS TRAINING CENTRE 4. DATE: 09 SEPTEMBER 2009 5. PARTICIPANTS: No.: 49 Sex: 42% female Age: 16–63, average 46 years From: government employees, traditional leaders, political activists, women, youths, school children, victims of political violence and church leaders 6. RECOMMENDATIONS i. Truth recovery • There must be a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. The truth must be told without fear [political activists]. • The work of the commission must touch everyone; from the politicians who participated in the unrest to the Church [political activists and church representatives]. • There is need to discover where these things came from because without such truths being told, nothing will move. “The people are hurting” [male member of the church representatives]. • Truth recovery in Zimbabwe is long overdue and people need the truth to fix things before the next elections [male participant]. ii. Reparations • All those who caused pain and suffering to others and took people’s property must ask for forgiveness and pay for the damages they caused [church representatives and the women’s group]. • The victims must be identified and be compensated according to the injuries they suffered [government employees]. • Those who killed must come forward and ask for forgiveness [political activists]. • It is up to the victims to forgive or not because it is not for anyone to forgive the person who destroyed twenty years’ worth of labour [political activists]. iii. Accountability • Those who committed criminal offences must be arrested. There were people who were arrested for crimes they did not commit and these people must be freed [youths]. • There can be no peace without justice, and no justice without peace, so there is need to work out everything. Those who killed must be prosecuted [political activists]. iv. Reconciliation • There is need for reconciliation. Women had suffered badly as they were victims of the worst of atrocities, which included rape and killings, but they really want to see the 44 Taking Transitional Justice to the People – Outreach Report