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Tsumo

“Kukurukura hunge wapotswa.”

In English

You can only tell the tale when you have survived it.

When people say it

  • Edward W. Kaugare published a Shona book under this title with Longman Rhodesia in Salisbury in 1978. Open Library
  • A man who survived a bus crash on the Beitbridge road was asked to tell the story at a braai. His brother said it as he stood up to speak.

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