is expected to make recommendations as to how the society can amend its wrongs and repair the damages caused [government employees]. iii. Reparations • The society has suffered greatly because of Murambatsvina, price controls and the activities of the RBZ, and corruption at the Grain Marketing Board. These cannot be repaired in any monetary way but the society expects sanitization of the environment, revival of industry, and reform of the Reserve Bank, the Grain Marketing Board, the parastatals and the entire civil service [local entrepreneurs]. • There must be tax exemption for all informal traders until such time as they have adequately recovered. The government benefited from destroying flea-markets and freezing their “trillions” in banks, so it can afford tax exemption [women in informal trading]. • With regard to victims of political violence who have been left without limbs and suffering irreparable damage, some being raped and some orphaned, the government must provide Anti-Retroviral Therapy to all women who had contracted HIV because of politically motivated rape, and look after all the orphans. Programmes must be put in place to look after those who had been left disabled as result of political violence [youth group]. • The government must provide for counselling to all those who have been victimized, the witnesses to violence, the families and the perpetrators themselves, to allow for healing. [government employees]. • The principals to the GPA must visit all areas affected by violence and apologize to the victims of political violence. Burned houses must be rebuilt [women’s group]. iv. Accountability • The law must be applied to all those who committed offences. No one must be seen to be above the law [all groups]. • There are doubts that the current institutions have the capacity to dispense justice and whether the perpetrators would not escape justice [youth and government employees]. v. Institutional reform • There is too much corruption in the government institutions expected to dispense justice and apply the law. There is need to make sure that the police and the army are non-partisan and that the judiciary is impartial [youth group]. • There is need to retrain the police, soldiers and the CIO. They must understand the dignity of the human person [entrepreneurs’ group]. • Politicians must stop interfering with the security systems [church representatives]. • Reform of government institutions like the Reserve Bank and the Grain Marketing Board is necessary as they are “reaping where they did not sow” [farmers and entrepreneurs’ groups]. 7. OBSERVATIONS • The meeting was a great success, considering the reports of violence and intimidation in Chiredzi. • The wounds of the past are still very fresh in Chiredzi. The facilitators were shown a 94 Taking Transitional Justice to the People – Outreach Report