Tsumo

Kufa kwehosi / inosiya imwe

Shona Definition

Kunge munhu abva pachigaro anosiya mumwe. Kazhinji kana ishe akafa, anosiya mwana wake ane mutongo sowababa vake.

When one who holds an office departs, another takes his place; a chief who dies leaves behind a son who rules as his father did.

“Said of succession and the filling of a vacant post, so that authority carries on without a break.”

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This is a variant of

If the senior wife departs, there is always another left behind to fill her place.