By Paul Nyathi| The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has announced the venues of the first stakeholders hearings to be held on Friday.
In an interview with ZimEye.com on Monday morning Commissioner Geofrey Chada said that the hearings will be held at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic in Gwanda and at Bindura University Town Campus on Friday between 8am and 1pm.
Commissioner Chada said that the Friday hearings are not yet public hearings but specific stakeholders to discuss an initial roadmap on how the commission will continue with its operations in the communities.
“We have sent specific invitations through the Minister of state and the Provincial administrators of specific stakeholders to attend this meeting,” said Chada.
“These will include traditional leaders, council officials and representatives of organisations involved in peace building,” he said.
In a circular on its official online pages, the commission said that the main objectives of the consultations will be:
1.To enhance stakeholder awareness of the NPRC, its mandate and functions.
2. To provide a platform for stakeholders to feed into and shape the strategic priorities of the NPRC.
3: To map the local and regional level capacities for peace, healing and reconciliation.
Just publish the already available reports simple and stop creating unnecessary drama over this issue.Then the reports can be discussed and supplimented if there are any gaps. What is the point of another hearing whose results may not even get published just like the previous ones?
Was there Gukurahundi in Bindura? The headline is deliberately misleading.
Good start..