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Chaona dziso harirambidzwi

Shona Definition

Ziso kana parinenge ratarisa harikoni kudzokerazve zvakare harikanganisi pakuona kwaro.

English Translation

Once the eye has looked at something it can return to it and it does not get its seeing wrong. What a person has seen for himself is reliable and lasting.

Cultural Context

“Invoked to affirm the reliability of what someone has witnessed with his own eyes.”

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This is a variant of

Chaona ziso / ndecharaona

Sight is its own proof: what a person's eye took in, it truly took in.