i) How should Justice be delivered? Zimbabwe has conventional and traditional justice delivery mechanisms which are vital to consider in the context of national healing and reconciliation processes. Therefore, to understand the mix of justice solutions that Zimbabweans would want, we asked participants to indicate the extent to which reconciliation and national healing should be informed by local traditional a le ra itional on i t re ol tion methodologies such as ‘kuripangozi, kutandabotso and nhimbes.’ In response to the question: To what extent should reconciliation and national healing be informed by local traditional practices such kuripa, botso, nhimbe, ngozi etc, respondents had a somewhat inclination to the use of traditional mechanisms as shown in table 9 below: e hani Ranking Percentages To a lesser extent 24.8 To a greater extent 24.6 To the largest extent 24.0 To the least extent 19.2 Not sure 7.5 Total 100.0 The responses in table 9 above shows that the majority of respondents (24.8%) said traditional practices should be used ‘to a lesser extent’ while 24.6% also said the traditional practices should be used to a greater extent. At the same time, 24.0% said the traditional practices should be used to the largest extent. Given that the statistics do not differ greatly, it can be inferred that there is a slightly inclination towards using traditional mechanisms as part of the reconciliation interventions. To observe practical reconciliation interventions that can be favourable to the 38 RECONCILIATION PROCESSES IN ZIMBABWE communities, HZT asked respondents to rank, in order of importance, possible national healing and reconciliation programmes they would value if implemented. The ranked processes involved both traditional and conventional transitional justice methodologies. In response to the question: Rank the following in order of importance in the national healing and reconciliation process in Zimbabwe. In your view, what should start first and come last in the list above, survey respondents said the following, in table 10:

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