KwaunobvaNganoNgano yaMusha waKapondoro
Ngano
Ngano yaMusha waKapondoro
The Tale of Kapondoro's Homestead
Ngano
Zvakaitika Kapondoro aiva mukuru wemusha ainzi Chidyamapfihwa. Aive nehama dzaivenga vamwe, dzichiramba kushanda, uye dzichituka vadzidzisi. Hama idzi dzakazombopandukira dare remusha, dzichiti dzinogona kugadzira zvadzo dzoga. Vakuru vakasangana vakati, "Mutsika dzekare, munhu anozvigarira ega anowira munjodzi". Mwaka wakatevera, hama dzaKapondoro dzakatadza kuwana zvekudya, mvura yakapera, vana vavo vakarwara. Dzakazouya kudare remusha, dzikakumbira ruregerero. Kapondoro akaregerera, asi akati: "Kubva nhasi, tichashanda pamwe. Mumwe nemumwe anofanira kuita chikamu chake." Musha wakazobatana zvakare.
Chidzidzo
Kukosha kwekubatana Kudzoka pachokwadi mushure mekukanganisa Tsika dzekuregerera Mutemo wevanhu vekare wokubatsira pamwe chete
The lesson
The importance of unity. Returning to what is right after wrongdoing. The tradition of forgiveness. The ancestors' principle of helping one another.
In English
Kapondoro, head of a homestead known as Chidyamapfihwa, has relatives who resent others, refuse to work, and disrespect the teachers among them. These relatives eventually rebel against the homestead council, insisting they can manage on their own. The elders warn that, by tradition, those who isolate themselves invite misfortune. The following season, the rebellious relatives fail to find food, their water runs out, and their children fall ill. They return to the council to beg forgiveness. Kapondoro forgives them, on condition that from then on everyone works together and each person carries their share of the load, and the homestead is united once more.