In terms of process, Nhimbe/ulima relies on a middleman or a family friend known in local parlance as sahwira. The Sahwira knowing fully well what has transpired with regards to the violations be it stock theft, destruction of homes and crops will initiate talks between aggrieved families to hold a nhimbe in the victim’s field. The whole community is informed of the day of the nhimbe and they will congregate at the victims’ homestead to assist in ploughing, weeding and other agricultural processes that will need to be carried out. As the day progresses and almost when all the tasks are done, the Sahwira acting as a family friend and mediator will at some point introduce the matter of human rights violations, wrongs committed/perpetrated against the victim family and ask that the identified perpetrator give their own narration of what happened, why they did it and to ask for forgiveness. This is never easy but the fact that the environment is cordial and secure, perpetrators usually come forward because they want to cleanse (kuchenurwa) themselves and be relieved of the “burden” of guilt they would have been carrying for long periods of time, or even facing the wrath of their own kith and kin who might be blaming the perpetrator for bad omens besieging their family through unexplained deaths, children who can’t stay in marriages, unexplained illnesses, poverty among other challenges. When the perpetrators confess, the whole community will be witness and it is then the duty of local traditional leaders such as chiefs to give their judgments which might ask for reparations to the aggrieved family among other remedies. Again when all truth is established the victim’s family can now begin processes to honor their dead, “bring” them back to the homestead through processes of kurova guva, performing memorial services and relieving the perpetrators family of the ngozi and bad omens that could have befallen them. In other instances there have been cases where victims’ families have refused to bury their dead demanding compensation before the burial. This has caused 12