The role of social workers in response to genocides and massacres: The case of Gukurahundi
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
The term ‘Gukurahundi’ is a direct translation of a Zimbabwean Shona term that refers to “the
first rain that washes away chaff before spring” (Eppel, 2008:1). In Zimbabwe, this term is
specifically used in reference to the massacres of over 20 000 people in the Matabeleland and
Midlands provinces, as well as displacement and torture of innumerable others by the Mugabeled
regime in the 1980’s (Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, 1997).
This violence was never acknowledged nor comprehensively addressed at national level.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Gukurahundi, Social workers, Genocides, Violence, Zimbabwe