Tsumo
“Gudo guru peta muswe kuti vaduku vakutye.”
In English
The older people should be dignified for them to be respected by the younger ones.
When people say it
- In June 2011 the editor Wilf Mbanga quoted it in a column on a SADC summit row. He used it to say Robert Mugabe should stop insulting MDC politicians if he wanted respect himself. The Zimbabwean
- In August 2026 Brilliant Pongo opened an opinion piece with it, about Thomas Mapfumo's public quarrel with his nephew Kurai Makore over Chimurenga music. The writer asked Mapfumo, as the elder, to handle it with more restraint. NewZimbabwe.com