Can someone tell Biti to hold his tongue?

Posted a colleague (name withheld) on Facebook somewhat angrily — and understandably so — this week: “I was born into a polygamous family in Manicaland and it’s not feudal by any description! Happy with it!”

Anger was not out of place because the core of his very existence and values — his family foundation — had been attacked by MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti in a tweet after the main opposition bloc had held a well-attended electioneering rally in Marange, Manicaland province, so it was absolutely unnecessary to stir a hornet’s nest, or, as they say in Shona, kudenha mago arere.

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