n'anga haizvirape (or n'anga haizvirapi)
Literal meaning: a sangoma ("traditional healer") can't diagnose and heal themself.
Contextual meaning: when an authoritative person whose role is to enforce the law gets caught up in corruption, or supposedly if they commit a heinous crime, it makes sense they shouldn't be allowed to investigate themselves, neither to be the judge nor the jury of their trial because... hello? I mean what human being is too stupid enough to throw themselves under the bus if they can literarily bury the evidence as much as they please without any objection from anyone? Sho'nuff, they'll do what they got to do. Y'all know the drill.
Similar chiShona proverb |
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Mhosva haizvitongi or mhosva haizvitonge |
