In cases where the perpetrators of a murder refuse to cooperate through confessing and compensating for their wrong deeds, the family of the deceased can invoke the spiritual sanction of ngozi to force the family of the perpetrator to initiate the reconciliation process. So the ngozi mechanism has been used for centuries in Zimbabwe in assisting to bring perpetrators to account and settling the closure of unsolved deaths. When the ngozi is appeased, the family of the deceased usually is able to then carry on with such processes as kurova guva/umbuyiso and nyaradzo/memorial service. 7(iv) Nhimbe/Ulima/Collaborative platforms This is a traditional communal African practice mostly practiced in Zimbabwe in which communities come together to pool their resources and labor to offer assistance, usually to the vulnerable members of the community. The same institution is also used for other purposes such as pooling labor during peak harvest time. In terms of building resilient livelihoods, it is used to shield orphans and vulnerable children as well other child headed households from hunger by providing them with pooled labor to enable them to cope with farming labor demands. ZIMCET and HZT have captured the dynamism of such a process and utilized it as a truth seeking and acknowledgement mechanism wherein victims met their perpetrators in a non - hostile situation. For the communities where the two civil society organizations have been working to reconcile perpetrators and victims the efficacy of nhimbe lies in the fact that it provides a non hostile platform for victim and perpetrator to meet. It is a sure way of establishing the truth for everyone in the community to know, seeking acknowledgement from the perpetrator and securing reparations for the aggrieved17. For an expose on the concept of nhimbe/ulima and how it has been used in transitional justice processes in Zimbabwe see reports from http://www.healzimbabwe.co.zw/# 17 11