“Preliminary work on the process has been done. There was a collaboration among churches, civil society and government in the organ of national healing. But we need a broad-based community centred approach to national healing,” he said. “The church is very well placed to be at the forefront of this process. We would confront all contentious issues including Gukurahundi and Operation Murambatsvina. The problem is not confronting issues but the way in which those issues are confronted. Everyone needs to own up if there is to be real national healing,” he added. The organ of national healing was set up at the inception of the GNU with a mandate to establish “a mechanism for national healing, cohesion and unity and lay the foundation for a society characterised by mutual respect, tolerance, and development and where individuals enjoy the freedoms as enshrined in the Constitution”.
Analysts have criticised the organ for being invisible saying many people are not even aware that it exists.