For more than 40 years, Bongani Ncube and Patricia Baleni have carried the pain of losing their fathers in the Matabeleland massacres in which thousands of Zimbabweans were murdered in the 1980s.
But neither believe village-level hearings launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in July as a 'pilgrimage towards healing' will bring closure.
Ncube said he was three when soldiers shot his father a few metres from their home in Matabeleland North province in 1983, the year the then prime minister Robert Mugabe sent troops to crush dissent in the ethnic Ndebele heartland.
Mugabe had claimed Joshua Nkomo, his old ally in the fight against white rule who drew much of his support from Matabeleland, was plotting against him.
Ncube's father was a government veterinary worker and local leader of Nkomo's ZAPU party, the main target of the red-beret unit deployed by Mugabe, head of the mostly Shona ZANU party.
