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Tsumo

“Kandiro kanoenda kunobva kamwe.”

In English

Favours go to those that have given them before.

When people say it

  • In May 2013 The Herald reported on a joint show by singers Victor Kunonga and Bheki Khoza. Kunonga led Khoza in singing it on stage, as a sign of how close their partnership was. The Herald
  • A woman in Manchester asked an old colleague for a reference, and he agreed at once because she had covered his shifts when his mother was ill. Her husband said it when she told him.

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