“Chinono chinengwe, bere rakadya richifamba.”

When people say it

• Somandla Ndebele, frontman of the sungura group Denda Brothers, used the first half of the proverb as the title of a five-track album in 2019. Nehanda Radio (from The Herald)
• A woman selling vegetables at the Kadoma market always had her stall up and stocked before the others had unloaded. A neighbour said it about her to a new trader.