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Gukurahundi: Govt Says Mugabe And Nkomo Resolved The National Apology Issue

2 years agoTue, 18 Oct 2022 11:36:53 GMT
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Gukurahundi: Govt Says Mugabe And Nkomo Resolved The National Apology Issue

Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo has said the national apology on Gukurahundi was long dealt with when former President Robert Mugabe and former Vice President Joshua Nkomo through the 1987 unity accord.

Moyo was speaking at the Bulawayo State House Monday during the launch of a manual to guide community hearings into the Gukurahundi massacres. ZimLive cites him as saying:

… That the national apology issue was resolved by former President Robert Mugabe and former Vice President Joshua Nkomo when the Unity Accord was signed in 1987.

That was agreed in your (Mnangagwa) discussion with the chiefs.

Moyo was presenting a summary of issues agreed upon between President Mnangagwa and traditional chiefs in Matabeleland on how the hearings will be conducted.

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Some context:

Gukurahundi occurred in the 1980s, in the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s independence.

Then Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe deployed the North Korean-trained 5th Brigade to “deal” with the alleged threat of “dissidents” in those provinces.

An estimated 20 000, mostly Ndebele-speaking people died in the conflict.

Government critics including the opposition have over the years been calling upon authorities to compensate the families of Gukurahundi victims and to publicly ask for forgiveness.

The Gukurahundi issue was a sensitive topic during Mugabe’s era but that changed when Mnangagwa came to power and allowed “debate” on the subject. 

The issue was then assigned to the Retired Justice Sello Nare-chaired National Peace and Reconciliation Commission but was later passed on to traditional chiefs.

Mnangagwa further agreed with chiefs that Gukurahundi should be defined “as the state and organised dissidents and not a Ndebele-Shona cultural conflict so as to address current perceptions and achieve national healing and peace.”

Each chief will spearhead the resolution of Gukurahundi issues by presiding over hearings or consultations in his or her area of jurisdiction, according to a 14-page document produced by Chiefs’ Council president Fortune Charumbira.

That exhumations and reburial will be resolved on a case-by-case basis customs centric and the relevant chief should give guidance and direction.

Mnangagwa presided over the launch of the start of the Gukurahundi hearings in Bulawayo.

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6 Comments

cde chipopi · 2 years ago
Nkomo akavharwa na bhobho uyo that's why Zapu irikuchema naikozvino.
uGatsheni boya beNyathi · 2 years ago
I wonder how much money they paid JN Nkomo to sell out the whole region by signing that Mickey mouse "Unity accord"
Sabhuku · 2 years ago
Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has no business in these matters. It only shows insincerity on the crocodile side especially considering they seemingly trying to tackle the issues toward election time. Tribunals were set way back, what exactly were they doing with taxpayer money all this time? Siss man, they disgustingly offensive to my Matebele brothers and sisters.
Sorojena · 2 years ago
Hapana hama ya Joshua Nkomo naRobert Mugabe yakawurayiwa negugurawound...innocent people were killed. Zvemuchado waNkomo naMugabe pamsana pegugurawound is just witchcraft. Kana vasingadi kuti issue iyi iite resolved they must keep quite, isu macocroches we will find our own resolution. Burying the remains of our dear cocroches should not worry them we can use our own resources, so why are they barring us...is it witchcraft?
🌚🌚🌚🌚🇱🇷🇺🇦 · 2 years ago
Why do they not fight back?
🤮 · 2 years ago
@me... s. t.u.p.i.d. question.
. · 2 years ago
An insult to the victims and relatives
Kokoroch · 2 years ago
Gugurawound was resolved bla bla bla, more than 40 years now the surviving cocroaches are denied to bury the remains of their loved cocroaches decently. Turning Bhalagwe to a heroes acre as the system has tried to do is an insult. Gugurawound was a genocide whose resolve should not come from Nkomo and Mugabe. Unity accord was their own marriage , they did not own the butchered cocroches. Pliz Moyo akusiyeke usivulele umoya.
🌚🌚🌚🌚🇱🇷🇺🇦 · 2 years ago
Mugabe theperpetrators and Joshua Nkomo were desperate for power but they both did nothing for the real victims.

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