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Can public hearings into Zimbabwe's 'genocide' of the 1980s bring healing and national unity?

Zimbabwe's president launches public hearings into the 1980s mass killings. Are big energy firms pulling out of South Africa? And is Zambia's free education policy sustainable?

Zimbabwe's President Emerson Mnangagwa has announced public hearings into the mass killings of Zimbabwe's Ndebele people 40 years ago. The president says the hearings will be a mechanism to bring healing and national cohesion. But a survivor of the massacre of opposition supporters, tells us he does not trust the process.

Also, why are major gas companies threatening to pull out of South Africa?

And Zambia has spent millions of dollars on hiring new teachers and making primary and secondary education free, but the policy has also worsened class overcrowding.

Presenter: Audrey Brown
Producers: Bella Hassan, Rob Wilson and Joseph Keen in London. Charles Gitonga in Nairobi.
Technical producer: Craig Kingham
Senior Journalist: Paul Bakibinga
Editors : Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard.

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