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Insider chit-chat- Must I tell?

A couple coming into the country was required to fill in resident permit forms. The husband decided to fill in both forms and started with his wife’s.  He filled in all the relevant details but when he got to a section entitled: Sex, he posed for a moment, showed the form to his wife and asked: “Fatima, must I tell?”

“Of course you have to if we have to get the permit,” the wife replied.

“Must I tell?” he asked again.

After being reassured by his wife, the husband wrote: (Sex):  5 times a day.

-From The Insider February 1991

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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