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“Pfavira ngoma, husiku hurefu.”

In English

Be calm and take your time to do things.

When people say it

  • In April 2019 Tabani Mpofu, head of the Special Anti-Corruption Unit, closed a Herald article with it. He told readers the corrupt might seem to be winning but there was a long fight still ahead. Nehanda Radio (first published in The Herald)
  • A father in Norton watched his son rush through his maths homework to get back to his phone. He said it and sat the boy down to do it again slowly.

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