“Takabva neko kumhunga hakuna ipwa.”

When people say it

• In July 2015 Kwayedza printed a poem by Cleopatra Shurugwi, a Form 2 pupil in Mutoko, that opens with this proverb. The poem is about a child who answers back to elders and learns too late that they were right. Kwayedza (on The Herald website)
• The village committee in Chipinge proposed a new borehole plan. An old man said it, since the same plan had been tried ten years before and the pump never worked.