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Original Post Date: 2010-09-08 Time: 18:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Lance Guma
The National Healing and Reconciliation Organ, set up under the coalition government, has been described as a failure by participants who attended a workshop in Bulawayo over the weekend.
One of the three Ministers in the ‘Organ,’ Sekai Holland, came in for some harsh criticism from war veterans previously in the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA). Reports say there was a heated exchange between some of the veterans and Minister Holland, who was officiating at the launch of a new non-governmental trust meant to assist victims of political violence.
The Newsday newspaper quotes ZIPRA war veterans’ association deputy chairman Buster Magwizi telling Holland; “This thing called National Healing Organ is just useless because of your incompetence. You guys in the National Healing Organ have done absolutely nothing since its formation because you are incompetent.”
On Tuesday Holland told SW Radio Africa ‘our role is advisory’. She said they were consulting various stakeholders, including traditional leaders, churches, civil society and the political parties, and this would culminate in an all-stakeholders conference next year. Holland said this conference ‘will come up with a national code of conduct which then goes to Parliament where we then get the mechanism that will create an infrastructure of peace in Zimbabwe.’
Critics say the formation of the Zimbabwe Victims of Organized Violence Trust shows the frustration with the government process. The organization is led by 54 year old Patience Nabanyama, whose husband Patrick Nabanyama was abducted in 2000 by 10 armed state operatives and never seen again. Holland however told us; ‘What those NGO’s are doing is precisely what Zimbabweans are supposed to do. The job of the Organ is to facilitate the process and arrive at a peaceful culture.’
Holland and Vice President John Nkomo are leading the National Healing Organ, following the death of its third minister Gibson Sibanda last month. While the focus has been on the alleged ‘incompetence’ of the ministers some commentators say the major issue is Mugabe’s relentless hold on power and continued protection of ZANU PF thugs who masterminded the political violence and murder.
Newsreel pressed Holland on whether the Organ was tip-toeing around confronting the real problem of continued ZANU PF impunity. She told us; ‘The GPA is a compromise agreement and we can’t work to produce what one party wants. So we have to use strategies that allow us to have common ground to build together.’
Meanwhile, as the constitutional outreach exercise has shown, ZANU PF will not hesitate to use abductions, torture and other forms of intimidation to drive their political agenda while the MDC cry foul.
Original date published: 7 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009080476.html?viewall=1