In light of extensive non-compliance, the conspicuous silence of the Organ is deeply troubling. With the media awash with reports of the continued escalation of violence, the Organ has not even issued a press statement or carried out an investigation to verify these allegations. The Organ has only managed a few road shows in the provincial capitals where it spelt out its objectives, but clearly it has no practical plan on what to do next, complaining of lacking the financial means and expertise. Even now, it has not produced a report for its road shows from six months ago. The state media remained intransigent, racist and sectarian in its reporting on the acquittal of the MDC secretary general Roy Bennett. He was vilified in The Sunday Mail (16 May) as an “Insult to the struggle”, “a former member of the notorious Scouts” and “unrepentant Rhodie”. It seemed that the state media did not care about the implications of this stance on the GPA and national healing, and is doing nothing to support the national healing programme. Through hate speech, unbalanced reportage and obsequious jingles on national television and radio, the public media has dealt a mortal blow to the spirit of national healing and fomented sectarian violence and the widening rift between political parties. Challenges are being experienced in the promotion of initiatives to resolve the political differences through tolerance and mutual respect. There were reports of the Finance Minister Biti storming out of the Cabinet after clashing with ZANU-PF ministers over the Reserve Bank’s debt restructuring plan. The ideological differences, mutual distrust, lack of transparency and disrespect are causing considerable friction between parties to the GPA. The down stream effect has been the continued polarity at grass roots and the attendant violence which is borne by the populace. There have been no concrete measures put in place to ensure the political neutrality of traditional leaders. In Karoi, reports allege that traditional leaders coerced villagers into attending ZANU-PF sanctioned constitutional meetings, where people were supposed to have been coached. In some cases these leaders are said to be calling out registers weekly to see who traveled to towns and why. Such “curfews” at a time when people needed to be free to contribute in the constitution-making process violated the people’s freedom of movement and intimidated them in a manner that destroys confidence in the GPA’s ability to protect individuals from perpetrators of political violence. Police arrested two employees of The Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), Ellen Chadehama and Ignatius Mhambi, for posting a letter in their office from Willie Lewis Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, criticising the Zimbabwean president’s opposition to homosexuality. They were arrested on allegations under Zimbabwe’s censorship law. Police said the letter, mounted on an office wall, “undermined the authority of the president”, an offence that falls under sweeping security laws carries a penalty of a fine or brief imprisonment. President Robert Mugabe has described same-sex partners as “lower than dogs and pigs”. It is believed that the arrest was motivated by the utterances of the principals of the GPA concerning gays and their rights at an International Women’s Day celebrations in March 2010. RECOMMENDATIONS The civil society stated, in their minimum demands for transitional justice, that “a credible and independent truth seeking inquiry into the conflicts of the past which holds perpetrators to account and which provides victims the opportunity to tell their stories with a view to promoting national CIVIL SOCIETY MONITORING MECHANISM (CISOMM) SIX MONTH SHADOW REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE INCLUSIVE OF ZIMBABWE 50