18 North, Mount Darwin, Hurungwe [Karoi], Kariba, Makoni West (Rusape), Chikomba and Makoni East Mrs. Erica Nyaunde, a witness in the Makoni East election petition, told the High Court that she was the victim of harassment stemming from her willingness to testify in the case. She stated that on 17 April, three men followed her into a phone shop. One man, who she could identify only as ‘Douglas’, was wearing a ZANU (PF) t-shirt. Mrs. Nyaunde had gone to the phone shop to make a call about a check she was trying to cash. Douglas produced handcuffs and told her that she would ‘cash her check at the cemetery’. The men also said, ‘you gave us problems and your name is among 68 going to the High Court’. The men dispersed after the proprietor of the shop called police. A policeman then escorted Mrs. Nyaunde to a terminus. 5. Conclusions: This brief expose cannot do justice to the incredibly complicated story of the organised violence and torture in Zimbabwe. It is the case that organised violence and torture remain the most persistent form of political problem solving that is used in our many political crisises. This brief expose cannot certainly do justice to the understanding of the terrible legacy of suffering that all this unnecessary violence has brought. We have barely begun to deal with the legacy of the 1970s and the 1980s when we bring about another vast crop of new victims: we will be dealing with the consequences for yet another decade at the least. At least in part this problem emerges from the militarized approaches of our government and the failure of this government to from a revolutionary party to a contemporary democratic party. This is so well put by Chenjerai Hove: “Our government consists of men coming from the Bush : no law, only the law of the jungle. These men came into government and put their whole mechanism of violence into law. Torture people. Kill people. So the Bush has come to town. There’s a lot of Bush in this town.” It is imperative that we find a new way to deal with political conflict. It is imperative that we find ways to heal the thousands of damaged victims, and ways to rehabilitate the perpetrators. We need to find a new way to see ourselves, as Chenjerai Hove has so elegantly put it: “We need a new leadership of African love, care, compassion and justice. African philosophy about life is set on the dignity of the human being: hunhu. That is a very philosophical term. It means respect for the self, for others, for nature, for environment, for gods, rivers and mountains. It means more than a dignified person; it has to do with a strong and beautiful person that gives life to others so that they can you life. Leadership needs to know that if you kill someone, something will come to kill you. If a leader kills, he will be a leader of death…You didn’t create life, you can’t take it away. You must have hunhu; you must respect life; you must respect that African philosophy. African culture is