Wednesday, October 19, 2011

National healing must be tied to the new constitution and a new government y Khanyile Mlotshwa

Zimbabwe should tie the national healing programme to the constitutional rewriting process and hope for a new government after the next plebiscite so that it can succeed, a member of the civic society has said.
Addressing participants at the Ideas Festival organized by Bulawayo Agenda last weekend, Matabeleland Constitutional reform Agenda (Macra) leader, Effie Ncube, said national healing must be legislated for it
to succeed.
“The first thing that we should do is to ensure that we strengthen the constitutional process and then the national healing programme should be a central part of it.
“We need a legislative framework that defines and composes the national healing body so that we also know who they are reporting to. It has to be a credible body with credible individuals in it. It has
to be a multi-stakeholder body. We also have to devolve its operations so that it does not have to remain in Harare. It has to be found in Bulawayo, Plumtree, Mutare, Victoria falls and other places. If we have police stations in every 10 kilometers, we can have this body as well,” he said.
Ncube said the top leadership in the country has to be challenged to speak out on national healing.
“I have never heard of a national address or any leader addressing the nation on national healing. I am yet to hear an address aimed at healing the nation. We want the president and the prime minister to
pronounce clearly where they stand on national healing,” he said.
The co-minister in the organ of national healing, reconciliation and integration (ONHRI), Moses Mzila Ndlovu, said President Mugabe will address the nation at a function to be held in Bulawayo before the end of the year.
“We will have belated World Peace Day celebrations here in Bulawayo and the people of Bulawayo should come in their numbers and hear President Mugabe speak on these issues,” he said.
Ncube said the current government was, “better than the pre-2008 government but it is not clean enough for this process”.
“For this process to succeed we will need a new government,” he said.

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