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“Mudzimu wakupa chironda wati nhunzi dzikudye.”

In English

For everything that happens, there is a reason.

When people say it

  • In April 2026 Techzim used the first half of the proverb in a report on Telecel's corporate rescue. It described how unpaid debts broke the network, which drove off subscribers and made the money problem worse. Techzim
  • A nurse in Plumtree lost her job at the clinic and thought it was the end. A year later she had her own small pharmacy, and her grandmother said it when people asked how she got there.

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