GUKURAHUNDI KILLINGS: “I’m Sorry” Says Joice Mujuru
6 February 2017
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Ray Nkosi | Zimbabwe People First President, Joice Mujuru, has apologised to the people of Matabeleland over the Gukurahundi atrocities of the eighties and challenged for an open dialogue to establish who did what during the time of the atrocities.

Speaking to Bulawayo civic society groups and Mthwakazi proponent pressure groups on Friday , the former ZANU PF Vice President and cabinet minister said that she and many other people who were serving in government during the period of the atrocities knew nothing about what was happening in the Matabeleland regions where the atrocities were taking place.

At the time of the atrocities which were executed by a specially assembled wing of the army, her husband General Solomon Mujuru was the commander of the army to which Mujuru insists he was never involved in the activities of the wing which reported directly to President Robert Mugabe.

Responding to a question on her role and that of her husband in the atrocities, Mujuru insisted that they did not play any role in the killing of more than 20 000 people from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces claiming that the operations of the Gukurahundi army were a privy of Mugabe and a few people around him.

Mujuru got the confidence of the pressure groups when she told them that her party is prioritising a Truth an Reconciliation process which will seek to bring everyone suspected of any involvement in the atrocities to be openly probed and her and many others will be proven innocent.

She said that to show her party’s commitment to the process, the party has included a secretariat for National Healing and Reconciliation that will look into the modalities of pushing for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a matter of urgency.

The former right hand person to President Mugabe openly apologised to the people of Matabeleland for what she said was her being involved by association in the atrocities and many other ills effected by ZANU PF in the region and the country asking the people of Matabeleland to join hands in demanding for a truth and reconciliation commission process.

0 Replies to “GUKURAHUNDI KILLINGS: “I’m Sorry” Says Joice Mujuru”

  1. That’s a good start she is the first out of all of them to say sorry and how can we move forward unlike zanu who think they can just ignore it and it will go away…We will never forget not not generations to come.

  2. I now believe Mujuru is genuine and I trust her. She wants to open a new Chapter for Zim and is clearly sincere. I mean, she is the only Shona politician who has apologised and has consistently gone out of her way to explain things. She has not shut anyone down or attempted to sweep things under the carpet. Even Tswangirayi has fallen short on this.

    It is true that Gukurahundi reported directly to Mugabe, but that Solomon knew nothing is in my view stretching it. Solomon was in the forefront of getting rid of ex-ZIPRAs from the ZNA as directed by the then Command In Chief; Prime Minister Mugabe.

    What exactly was the reason for getting rid of ex-ZIPRA guys from the ZNA, other than to get them to turn into dissidents; deliberately so; so as to create a pretext to crush PF ZAPU, in order to pave the way for a one party state?