Online Reporter
Arron Nyamayaro
Grief has a way of stopping time, but for Mr Ronald Mujuru, life has demanded movement.
Just days after losing his wife and five children in a horrific road accident, he walked into an examination room and sat for his Master of Business Administration modules, choosing, in the midst of unimaginable loss, to keep going.
Mr Mujuru wrote three papers last week, on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, even as the weight of tragedy remained ever-present.
His family perished in a crash along Harare-Masvingo Highway near Mvuma on the eve of Good Friday, while travelling for Easter holidays and a church conference in Mberengwa after visiting relatives in Zvishavane.
At the time, he had stayed behind to prepare for his examinations, a decision that has since become difficult to process. Yet in the days that followed, the examination room became, in some way, a place of refuge.
“It was not easy. I just sat for the examination as a way of avoiding a blank page,” he said.
For Mr Mujuru, studying has not been about routine or ambition, but about holding himself together.
His revision has come in short, fragile moments, often interrupted by the steady stream of mourners arriving to offer condolences.
“When I am alone, I take my time to study, but for a few minutes,” he said.
“Some friends and relatives continue to visit and check on me and it is helping me much.”
The visits, he says, have become part of the healing process – reminders that even in profound loss, he is not alone.
Support has also come from his workplace, which has arranged counselling sessions to help him cope with the trauma.
“I want to commend my employers for meeting the costs for a counsellor who is taking me through some sessions and reducing my burden and trauma,” he said.
Crucially, a wider circle of support has formed around him.
Members of the Christian community, both within and outside Tynwald North, have reached out with prayers, scripture and messages of encouragement.
