VICE-President Kembo Mohadi has said Gukurahundi should be discussed freely and openly by people in order to find lasting solutions and closure on the matter.

Emerging from a closed door meeting with chiefs from Matabeleland South in Gwanda Town yesterday, Mohadi
said he was happy that dialogue was taking place which was a positive move.

“I am happy that people are talking about it and that is the only way we can bring closure to this issue. We are going to get closure. Some suggestions were brought about during our meeting including compensation for the victims, openly talking about the issue and other developmental issues such as why we lag behind other provinces.

“We now need to find total closure and discuss issues freely and openly, Gukurahundi must not be a thing that is spoken in the dark alleys of the streets, talk about it and we will get a solution,” he said.

Mohadi said Gukurahundi was not different from any other conflict that happened in Zimbabwe before.
“We have had other conflicts before, politically we have had our own conflicts since the 1960s, we also had conflict with the Rhodesians and a number of people lost their lives but we found each other and we are in one country.

It is something that happened but when Dr Joshua Nkomo and former President Robert Mugabe decided to sign the Unity Accord of 1987 the whole thing ended,” he said.State media