Paper 2 · Religious Practitioners
Give the Shona term for a spirit medium, the person through whom a mhondoro speaks to the community.
Model answer
svikiro
Also accepted: masvikiro, isangoma, homwe hwemhondoro
Explanation: A svikiro is possessed by a territorial spirit (mhondoro) and speaks in its voice, which is how the ancestors are understood to address the living. The mediums of Nehanda, Chaminuka, Kaguvi and Mkwati carried great authority, and it was that authority the guerrillas of the Second Chimurenga drew on.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies 4047/2, Specimen Paper (embedded in the frs_o_p1 2018-batch specimen booklet, pages 6-7), Q1