Note: As health is not perceived as a political discipline, it can effectively be used as a step towards addressing social and political issues in the community. Community wellness of spirit must be achieved alongside economic health (see Module 7). Sustainable economic development is dependent on spiritual and cultural development and on the healing of souls. Tormented souls will naturally not be as productive as free spirits. It is, therefore, very important to ensure healing of communities, as this will aid development. In Zimbabwe, most communities that are endowed with natural resources have not been benefiting much from them. Companies that extract mineral resources have not been ploughing back into the communities. This has resulted in these communities remaining stagnant in terms of development. In attempting to address this discrepancy, the government of Zimbabwe introduced community share-ownership trusts that are meant to benefit communities. In 2011, Zimplats established the Mhondoro Ngezi Community Trust to which it donated USD10 million and gave 10% of its shares to the local community as a way of ensuring that such community benefits from the platinum mined by the company. These trusts are also meant to correct the imbalances in ownership of resources that existed prior to independence. The land-reform programme and the indigenisation policies are also meant to try to strike a balance in ownership of resources among the black majority. However, owing to several factors, all these initiatives are yet to fully achieve their intended goals. COMMUNITY HEALING AND LEADERSHIP (Group discussion, plenary and mini lecture) Guiding questions (The facilitator may use other appropriate questions over and above those listed below.) • What do you understand by the term ‘leadership’? • What leadership styles do you know of? • Match each leadership style to specific animals in your community (e.g. lion, eagle, horse, hare, etc.) and demonstrate how they are related. (The facilitator may make use of pictures of animals.) • Discuss how each animal’s behaviour or characteristics enhance or threaten group cohesion and healing if adopted by human leaders. • Identify leaders in your community in Zimbabwe, Africa and beyond and explain their contributions to community healing. 10 Community Healing: A training manual for Zimbabwe