Human Rights Archive Zimbabwe

This newsletter details the developments in our country around transitional justice issues to give you a better view of the transitional justice landscape in Zimbabwe today. It covers the activities of the NPRC, our activities, and publications, the activities of our stakeholders and other global developments.

The reporting year 2017-2018 was characterised by groundbreaking activities for the NTJWG.The social,political and economic environment in Zimbabwe during the reporting period was also laden with a lot of developments.

This newsletter serves to keep you up to speed with transitional justice processes in the country.

This report carries a summary of the issued presented to the NPRC. In the briefing, the NTJWG raised several issues of concern to Zimbabwe’s transitional justice journey.

This briefing seeks to draw the Executive’s attention to the important developments in our country as they relate to transitional justice, healing and reconciliation.

This newsletter highlights activities carried out between February and March 2019

In this Code of Inclusion, NTJWG advances the mandate given by stakeholders to ensure that the processes of transitional justice in Zimbabwe are aligned to the expectations of the people of Zimbabwe and meet the best international standards.

The objective of the research is the development of a discussion paper for a transitional justice framework for Zimbabwe. This research will cover aspects regarding the understanding of key transitional justice questions in Zimbabwe.

Closing address by Alec Muchadehama a Key note Speaker. He Emphasized in the importance of Peace and Reconciliation and ways of making sure that it is the Government's way of Doing things.

From 21 to 23 November 2018, over 118 delegates converged in Bulawayo for the 2018 Transitional Justice Policy Symposium which was jointly convened by the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). The theme of the symposium was, ‘Never Again: Setting the Transitional Justice Agenda for Zimbabwe.’

This report captures all the proceedings of the symposium, speeches, expert exchanges and outcomes. With QR codes scattered across the report, the reader is invited to join the dialogue, to watch the videos of the presentations and capture the full emotion of the 2018 symposium.

Reverend Useni Sibanda opened the conference’s third day by assisting participants to reflect on first two days Symposium’s outputs drawing from various presentations and evidence by victims and survivors of the Gukurahundi atrocities.

This paper seeks to examine the question of amnesty and whether it is pragmatic to effect it as a healing and reconciliation mechanism within the context of Zimbabwe.

Day 2 of the NTJWG Conference being in Bulawayo began with participants visiting different historical sites and heritage centres which depict Zimbabwe’s conflict history and community healing practices. Visited places include; the Entumbane Reintegration Camps sites, the Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church and Amagugu International Heritage Centre.

The conference commenced with welcome remarks from Reverend Dr Ray Motsi (the NTJWG Thematic Leader on Memorialisation). There where also remarks from Paul Themba Nyathi, the NTJWG Deputy Chairperson standing in for the working group’s Chairperson, Aleck Muchadehama as well as a speech from Nomfundo Mogapi the Executice Director of CSVR and last but not least, remarks by the Chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, Retired Justice Selo Nare.