Outcry as Treasury ‘snubs’ Gukurahundi programmes

HUMAN rights activists in Bulawayo have expressed concern over the failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to fund Gukurahundi national healing programmes.

This is despite the launching of a Gukurahundi consultative process by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Bulawayo in October which will be led by chiefs to help bring closure to the emotive issue.

The 1980s Gukurahundi massacres perpetrated by government forces saw the death of more than 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.

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