Online Reporter
Arron Nyamayaro
FOR most people, sitting for exams requires focus and peace of mind.
For Ronald Mujuru, it has required something harder — courage.
Mujuru is still mourning the death of his wife and five children in a horror accident. Last week, he found the strength to sit for three examinations on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Yet for Mujuru, the weight of grief has been constant, especially as he continues to reflect on the tragedy that took his family’s lives along Masvingo Road. These were the examinations Ronald was preparing for when he let his family travel on that fateful trip, without him. Mujuru said his decision to write the exams was partly driven by a need not to collapse into silence.
“It was not easy. I just sat for the examination as a way of avoiding a blank page. Ndangodarodarowo zvangu,” he said.
Mujuru’s days have been filled with revision, but also with visitors.
He says some friends and relatives have continued to come to offer condolences, checking on him during moments when studying is the only way he can steady his mind.
“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.”
For Mujuru, support is not just sympathy, it has become part of how healing begins.
He thanked his employers for arranging counselling sessions, saying the support has helped reduce his burden and trauma.
“I want to commend my employers for meeting the costs of a counsellor who is taking me through some sessions and reducing my burden and trauma,” he said.
“The Christian community, in and outside Tynwald North, has been keeping me alive with messages of hope, living word from the Holy Bible, and it is healing my soul.
“There have been prayers and elders taking me through some prayers and making me taste the power of prayer.”
Mujuru lost his family on the eve of Good Friday, while they were travelling to attend an Easter conference in Mberengwa, after some family members in Zvishavane.
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