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Mujuru misses late hubby
02 Jun 2013 at 04:27hrs | Views
Acting President Mujuru yesterday (Saturday) said the circumstances in which her husband, General Solomon Mujuru (Retired), died were shocking and still linger in her mind as she sometimes struggles to accept that he is not around anymore.
General Mujuru died in an inferno that gutted his house in Beatrice in 2011.
Speaking in Gweru at a memorial service for Mrs Charlotte Msipa, wife to former Midlands provincial Governor, Cephas Msipa, Mujuru urged the widower to draw solace from the fact that he was with Mrs Msipa when she died.
Mrs Msipa died on April 27 this year following diabetes-related complications.
"Tese tinoziva zvinorwadza kurasikirwa neumwe wako. Dzimwe nguva wakagara unoti dai Solomon aripano. Sesu vamwe tinotaura netwuzukuru twuchitiudza mastories todzoka torangarira zvakare. It is painful to lose a loved one. (At times when I am alone I wish Solomon was around. Some of us talk to our grandchildren and they tell us stories which take our memories back)," she said.
"You (Msipa) should take comfort in the fact that you saw her going. Take a leaf from her. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck that which is planted (Ecclesiastes 3)."
Mujuru also encouraged couples to always cherish each other.
"Couples should learn to love one another while they are still alive. Hatidi kuzoti ah dai Solomon arimupenyu ndamuitira mashiripiti.
"This is the time for husbands and wives to love each other."
Speaking at the same occasion, Msipa said he also missed his wife, describing her as his strength, friend and comforter.
He expressed gratitude to Zanu-PF, the Government and all those who comforted his family in its moment of grief.
"I never thought I would be able to go through this kind of thing. I saw her just before she died and when I was told by the nurses that they had failed to resuscitate her I asked myself: 'If Jesus could resurrect people, why can't He do the same to my wife?'
"I later had to accept that she was gone. She was my strength, my friend and comforter and at times I shed tears when I think of the fact that she is gone."
The Msipa family donated US$5 000 which will be shared among the Zanu-PF Women's League and Youth League; the Church of Christ as well as the Anglican and Salvation Army churches.
The memorial service was attend by Midlands provincial Governor Jason Machaya; Zanu-PF national spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, Ministers of State in Vice-President Mujuru's Office Flora Buka and Sylvester Nguni; Zapu president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa; Members of Parliament, church leaders and senior Government officials, among other dignitaries.
General Mujuru died in an inferno that gutted his house in Beatrice in 2011.
Speaking in Gweru at a memorial service for Mrs Charlotte Msipa, wife to former Midlands provincial Governor, Cephas Msipa, Mujuru urged the widower to draw solace from the fact that he was with Mrs Msipa when she died.
Mrs Msipa died on April 27 this year following diabetes-related complications.
"Tese tinoziva zvinorwadza kurasikirwa neumwe wako. Dzimwe nguva wakagara unoti dai Solomon aripano. Sesu vamwe tinotaura netwuzukuru twuchitiudza mastories todzoka torangarira zvakare. It is painful to lose a loved one. (At times when I am alone I wish Solomon was around. Some of us talk to our grandchildren and they tell us stories which take our memories back)," she said.
"You (Msipa) should take comfort in the fact that you saw her going. Take a leaf from her. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck that which is planted (Ecclesiastes 3)."
Mujuru also encouraged couples to always cherish each other.
"Couples should learn to love one another while they are still alive. Hatidi kuzoti ah dai Solomon arimupenyu ndamuitira mashiripiti.
"This is the time for husbands and wives to love each other."
Speaking at the same occasion, Msipa said he also missed his wife, describing her as his strength, friend and comforter.
He expressed gratitude to Zanu-PF, the Government and all those who comforted his family in its moment of grief.
"I never thought I would be able to go through this kind of thing. I saw her just before she died and when I was told by the nurses that they had failed to resuscitate her I asked myself: 'If Jesus could resurrect people, why can't He do the same to my wife?'
"I later had to accept that she was gone. She was my strength, my friend and comforter and at times I shed tears when I think of the fact that she is gone."
The Msipa family donated US$5 000 which will be shared among the Zanu-PF Women's League and Youth League; the Church of Christ as well as the Anglican and Salvation Army churches.
The memorial service was attend by Midlands provincial Governor Jason Machaya; Zanu-PF national spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, Ministers of State in Vice-President Mujuru's Office Flora Buka and Sylvester Nguni; Zapu president Dr Dumiso Dabengwa; Members of Parliament, church leaders and senior Government officials, among other dignitaries.
Source - Sunday Mail
