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“Zviuya hazviwanani.”

In English

Perfect people hardly find each other in marriage.

When people say it

  • Writer Ketina Muringaniza read from her book "Zviuya Hazviwanani" at a 2014 Zimbabwe International Book Fair evening at the Book Cafe in Harare. The Herald said the book follows the struggles of a young married woman. The Herald
  • A young woman complained that her fiance was kind but never on time, and that her friends' husbands were all better. Her aunt said it over tea.

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