Memories of Gukurahundi massacre and the challenge of reconciliation

dc.contributor.authorGusha, Isheanesu Sextus
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-14T05:33:04Z
dc.date.available2020-09-14T05:33:04Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWhen Zimbabwe attained her independence from colonial powers in 1980, prospects of a peaceful nation were high, especially following the pledge made by the Prime Minister Elect in his victory speech. Isaiah 2:4b was quoted as a metaphor of peace, but things did not turn out as expected in the following years. The vicious cycle of violence that was inherited from the colonial legacy continued and the worse phase of that cycle was the Midlands and Matabeleland crisis, commonly known as Gukurahundi. Approximately 20 000 people died in the state-sanctioned violence (genocide). Using Cue-Dependent Forgetting Theory, this paper critically appraises possible reasons why the promised bliss through reconciliation did not materialise. Among the reasons cited in this paper are the lack of a serious Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and also the phenomenon of amnesia as the major contributory factors to this cycle of violence.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentNew Testament Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.upjournals.co.za/index.php/SHE/indexen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGusha, I. 2019,'Memories of Gukurahundi massacre and the challenge of reconciliation', Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. 45, no. 1, art. #3707, pp. 1-14.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2412-4265 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1017-0499 (print)
dc.identifier.other10.25159/2412-4265/3707
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/76156
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherChurch History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Pressen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019. Published by The Church History Society and Unisa Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).en_ZA
dc.subjectGukurahundien_ZA
dc.subjectViolenceen_ZA
dc.subjectMemoryen_ZA
dc.subjectReconciliationen_ZA
dc.subjectZimbabween_ZA
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleMemories of Gukurahundi massacre and the challenge of reconciliationen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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