Bulawayo 1872

Ndebele Tribe Quotable Quotes, set four

A snake is not to be followed when it is in its hole .

The one who refuses to be told learns by the flow of blood.

A snake is not to be hit when its head is not seen.

No two bulls ever bellowed in one cattle kraal.

What has horns, can not be hidden in a sack.

We will meet where there are no bird cries.

He ate the food then the food ate him.

Ignorance is worse than death.

The one who does it to himself is not cried over, it’s the one to whom it is done who receives the sympathy.

You tread on a snake’s tail.

You collect a piece of firewood on which there is a scorpion.

King Tshaka is at home.

You will be gathered by the darkness.

The vultures are hovering for you.

All (sheep) get blamed through (the wrong of) one.

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