8(vii) Enhanced community unity and security The fact that communities are able to congregate at victims’ homesteads, sit under trees, drink traditional brews and perform rituals together cement traditional values of Ubuntu/Hunhu, oneness and unity. This is one important and key aspect of traditional justice mechanisms that are employed in Zimbabwe in the pursuit of transitional justice. 8(viii) Justice Many will argue that traditional justice mechanisms usually might not be able to guarantee due process for perpetrators of gross human rights violations especially in communities where there is no sound knowledge of the law. However, ZIMCET and HZT argue that in instances where the crimes and human rights violations do not need scientific verifications or are embedded in deep legal challenges/innuendos it is possible to achieve justice for past human rights violations through traditional justice mechanisms. In cases where livestock has been stolen, killed or maimed, the simple solution would be to ask for the perpetrator to bring back or repay whatever was stolen. In the case of crops destroyed, the perpetrator can be asked to pay back the grain or even pay by way of working for that family for a given period without having to go to criminal or civil courts where the case might drag expending huge resources and time. 9. WHAT CONDITIONS NEED TO BE MET BY TRADITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS? Communities where ZIMCET and HZT have been working over the past years have expressed interest and need for traditional justice mechanisms to be accorded a higher level stake in dealing with cases of past politically motivated human rights violations. There is no doubt that 18