Only a relatively small number of NGOs are presently registered under the present Act. Organisations like the Amani Trust, Zimbabwe NGO Human Rights Forum, Crisis Coalition are not registered. The Council can refuse registration on the wide and vague ground that it appears to the Council that the applicant organisation will not be genuinely operating in furtherance of its proposed objects. When the Council registers an NGO it may impose whatever conditions it sees fit and at any stage it may impose further conditions. It could thus register a human rights organisation but then impose restrictions that make it impossible for it to operate. At any time Council can cancel registration on such vague grounds as that: § NGO ceased to operate genuinely in furtherance of objects for which registered; § NGO failed to comply with any conditions imposed; § NGO has ceased to operate as NGO; § Council considers that the objects for which it was registered are merely incidental to its other objects. Council 14 members appointed by Minister. · 9 under-secretaries or above from various Ministries; and · 5 persons selected by Minister as being representative of NGO community. The 9 civil servants are likely to be hostile to human rights organisations and the 5 from the NGO community are likely to be drawn from NGOs set up by ZANU (PF). (The NGOs selected will be asked to nominate persons but the Minister does not have to appoint the persons nominated. If no nominations are received he can appoint anyone even if that person cannot represent the organisation concerned.) (Under the PVO Act, the Board had 23 members, I7 of which were drawn from the NGO community and only 6 of which were members representing specified Ministries.) 7