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Death of Justice Washington Sansole
Leonard Kapungu, Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa (CPIA)
June 12, 2009

It is with immense shock and sadness that the Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa (CPIA) has learned of the death of Justice Washington Sansole, on Monday 8 June 2009.

Justice Sansole has been a member of the CPIA Board of Trustees since 2004, Group of Eminent Persons since 2006, Social Cohesion Committee since 2007 and was Chairman of the General Emmanuel Erskine Research and Documentation Centre (GERDC) Board. In addition to playing an important part in ensuring that the Centre is in line with its core mandate of conflict prevention, management and resolution in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa through the above Advisory groups, he has been a leading figure in the implementation of CPIA's Reconciliation, Social Cohesions and Transitional Justice Programme.

The CPIA Executive Director, the International and Local Board of Trustees, the Eminent Persons Group, Church Leaders Group, Social Cohesion Committee and the Staff of CPIA pay tribute to "a highly respected prominent advocate of integrity who contributed tremendously to various endeavors on democracy throughout the country".

Enjoying a national reputation as an arbitrator in industrial disputes in various companies and law expert, he was deeply committed to CPIA and its vision for Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa.

Justice Sansole will be fondly and greatly missed by CPIA. Our thoughts are with his wife, children and other family members, as well as the staff of the Sansole and Senda Legal Practitioners.

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