Proposed Remedy
The NPRC has to include these, and
many other issues omitted in its
ndings. It is our hope that when the full
report is produced, it will also be
produced together with the record of
proceedings to allow stakeholders to
track the issues from the public
meetings and have an appreciation of
what informed the ndings.
General Recommendations
Proposed Remedy
To remedy this matter, we invite the
NPRC to urgently release the report
and call for further input based on the
actual contents of the report, not
speculation of what the report may
otherwise contain.
The Missing Issues in the
Presentation
NTJWG carefully followed the public
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Ÿ NTJWG acknowledges that the
shortcomings of this process could
have been prevented if the NPRC
was adequately resourced. We now
urge the government to live up to its
commitment and constitutional
obligations and provide the NPRC
with adequate resources to enable
the NPRC to carry out its work.
Ÿ The integrity of the peace and
reconciliation process rests heavily
on the integrity of the information
NPRCWATCH
We note that the information
regarding the conference was not
made available in time to stakeholders
hence limiting participation of many
who may otherwise have desired to be
part of the process. Stakeholders from
outside Harare were greatly
disadvantaged and this compromises
the national character of the
conference. Even as the conference
kicked off, the report of the ndings
that the participants were asked to
validate was not made available. This
compromised the substance of
participation as stakeholders had to
be content with bullet points of
summaries that were projected during
the conference. Many stakeholders
attend such proceedings in
representative capacity. As such it is
critical that such an important report
ought to have been made available
ahead of the conference to allow
stakeholders to consult with their
constituencies, analyse the ndings
and make a determination. The idea
that the report which the stakeholders
were asked to validate was never
shared with stakeholders even at the
conference makes such a validation
process a matter of ticking the boxes.
consultation process and noted the
issues raised by stakeholders. Some of
the issues were omitted from the
ndings presented by the NPRC at the
conference. The critical aspects that
were missing include issues of violations
committed during the liberation war,
the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina,
displacements of over 1,2 million
people in farming communities
between 2000 and 2007, the 2000 and
2002 electroral violence, violations in
the Chiadzwa area, displacements at
Tokwe Mukosi, displacements around
the Kariba Dam among others. These
are issues that the ndings cannot
afford to ignore, even in summary. The
ndings cannot afford to be silent on
gender as the NPRC Act obliges the
NPRC to have a specic focus on that
area and a specic chapter in any
report that follows.
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participation is not meant to be simply
a token but is designed to inuence
the process.
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