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Shona Definition
Mwana muduku kana achitaura chinhu, anotaura chokwadi chete. Haana zviya zvokuti ichi hachirehwi kana kuti ichi chinoera.
English Translation
A young child speaks only the truth, with none of the adult reserve about what may or may not be mentioned. What a child reports can therefore be relied on.
Cultural Context
“Invoked when a child's account is to be trusted or sought out as the honest version of events; the book notes a parallel Ndebele saying that the truth is found by asking the children.”
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