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Shona Definition
Kuzvikanganisira hakutsamwisi kana kuchemedza. Munhu anozviitira zvinhu zvake kana zvikazomukuvadza haana waanonenera mhosva.
English Translation
No grudge arises out of a person's own affairs. Where the planning and the doing were yours alone, the hurt that follows is yours alone to put up with, and there is nobody you would want to lay the fault on.
Cultural Context
“Applied to someone bearing the results of what they themselves brought about, with no one else to accuse.”
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This is a variant of
Ndomene / haichemedziWhat a person brings on himself gives him no cause to weep. There is nobody to cry to over the results of your own doing.