Beitbridge man hated even beyond the grave

THE world over and in the Zimbabwean culture, there is general respect for the dead, often their bad deeds forgotten and publicly overlooked.

The Shona people actually have an adage, wafawanaka, which loosely means the evil that people do should be ignored after their demise.

Graveside or funeral wake eulogies deliberately omit all evil deeds and more often than not, the dead are showered with praises.

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