Thread by @ProfJNMoyo

1/8 "Matabeleland Collective collapses over Gukurahundi"

The so-called #MatabelelandCollectve died on arrival because it was neither about Matabeleland nor a collective; but a scam to cover up Mnangagwa's #gukurahundi atrocities to escape accountability!
thestandard.co.zw/2020/02/09/mat…

2/8 If the collapsed #MatabelelandCollective was not a Mnangagwa scam, like #Polad is, it would have ensured that the bambazonke Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.2) Bill, 2019 includes extending the life of the National Peace & Reconciliation Commission (#NPRC) beyond 2023!

3/8 The 25 amendments in Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.2) Bill, 2019 bring back provisions sought by Mnangagwa, Patrick Chinamasa & Paul Mnangagwa in August 2012 but rejected by the ZanuPF politburo. Also on that day Mnangagwa rejected the #NPRC! drive.google.com/open?id=1P-ikE…

4/8 Mnangagwa, Chinamasa & Mangwana mobilised #ZanuPF to reject section 251 of the new Constitution establishing the #NPRC. An unhappy compromise was reached to establish it only for 10 years from 22 August 2013, the effective date of the new Constitution!
newsday.co.zw/2012/08/2012-0…

5/8 Section 251 of the Constitution provides that the #NPRC will exist only for 10 years from 2013. Already six years have gone by, during which #NPRC has done between nothing & little to execute its mandate; after Mnangagwa, as justice minister, delayed the start of its work!

6/8 Over the last two years since it became operational, and despite s253 of the Constitution, the #NPRC has done absolutely nothing to "ensure post-conflict justice" and "the provision of justice" in relation to # #gukurahundi, 2008, 1August 2018 & 14-28 January 2019 atrocities!

7/8 A major reason why #NPRC has not met its constitutional mandate to ensure post-conflict justice, is #MatabelelandCollective that has been used by Mnangagwa through Virginia Mabhiza to push a dummy, fully aware that #NPRC's life expires in 2023; in an act of great deception!

8/8 It's propitious that organizations & activists with a record of working selflessly for the country & the people of Matabeleland have pulled out of the #MatabelelandCollective fraud, to form #MatabelelandForum. They must now demand that #NPRC's life be extended indefinitely!