Suddenly, while grave diggers were doing their job, dark clouds engulfed the cemetery with news that Ruth’s schoolmate,who was also in the same bus which was involved in an accident has passed away at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. One grave digger shouted on top of his voice,”Anyamata osangoima kumeneko bwerani tithandizane ntchito kuno.” Grave diggers started burying the body of Ruth,as choir members sung, “Tidzaonana kaya ndiliti Namalenga ndiye adziwa zonse. The mother looked lost and forlon,and seemed to be confunsed when she saw Ruth’s friends from Mary Mount in their school uniform. The mother wept,and appeared to be speaking to her daughter as she threw a flower into the grave. Relatives, parents to the late Ruth could be heard narrating sad words, as the coffin waved good byee that nobody could see it only adzukulu who surrounded the grave yard.īackground,the choir members changed tune from ndigoneranji m’manda ndekha to Kumwamba ndithu kukoma Awusako anthu.”Īfter the coffin of Ruth reached 6 ft under the ground, there were tears especially from women who mentioned her name in disbelief. Sound of different birds inside the cemetery could be heard, “Kukuruku kukuruku” as Ruth was on her last journey. “Ndigoneranji m’manda ndekha.Amayi tsalani, ngakhale mundikonda, Ambuye tsogoleleni ndili ndekha,” Choir members were singing, as the white coffin of Mary Mount Student, Ruth Tembo was slowly being lowered into the grave at Madisi in Dowa District.Īt exactly, 1.29pm, the pastor instructed grave diggers, “Tsopano gwirani ntchito adzukulu,” (Meaning now it is time to laid our dear daughter to rest).
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