“Zvikoni zvikoni mimba haibvi negosoro.”

When people say it

• Novelist Petina Gappah posted a list of Shona proverbs on X to sum up her relationship with the government year by year. She gave this one for 2021. Petina Gappah on X
• A family kept giving a sick child herbs from the neighbours instead of taking her to the clinic. When the fever came back a third time, her great-aunt said it and paid the bus fare to the district hospital.