Chiefs' Council President Says No Gukurahundi Taskforce Has Been Created

5 years agoSun, 09 Dec 2018 07:26:07 GMT

Chiefs' Council President Says No Gukurahundi Taskforce Has Been Created

The president of the Chiefs Council Chief Fortune Charumbira said that there was no task force created by chiefs to deal with the Gukurahundi issue. In an interview with the Standard, Charumbira said that chiefs have a moral obligation just like the churches to resolve conflict in the country. Said Charumbira

When churches go to mediate as they have been doing, is it in the constitution? When the NGOs go out to try and assist in conflict resolution, is it in the constitution? Churches have been doing some work on conflict resolution even on the Gukurahundi issue.
If you see people fighting in the street and you restrain them, do you need to refer to the constitution? Conflict is bad, full stop. It is a societal issue, a moral issue, an ethical issue and we cannot leave people remaining in conflict perpetually.

You don’t even need a law to quell a conflict, even if you are in a foreign land, if you see people fighting you still go and stop the fight, you don’t need a law to do that. but for the chiefs, it is even stronger and in the constitution, one of our roles is conflict resolution. However, whether the constitution or not, this is our inherent role since time immemorial.
However, I need to emphasise that there was no task force formed; we don’t need a task force for this. Our approach is different, we have the conference of chiefs, we have the chiefs’ council, we have the provincial assembly of chiefs and then the chiefs themselves.
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There is no task force that is going to resolve the Gukurahundi, but each chief is going to do it in his or her area. There are no external people that will go to a particular area to talk about Gukurahundi.
The chief and his people, including those that are making noise, even those outside Matabeleland, will be part of these meetings to give their own ideas too.
Charumbira will not go to Matabeleland to resolve any dispute; we are simply setting up a framework to activate the institution to start performing its roles.