If Women Can Weep

Patricia Daniel meets Michael Du Plessis when he nearly ran her over with a vehicle because he had been careless. She blows hot over him but his attitude was to accept and absorb all the harsh words she threw at him. He returns her cheeky words with great senses of humour and Christian morality. Michael is an n electronics engineer, who did his trade in West Germany. He grew up in both Cape Town and Mutare. Being of Boer stock he is a charming, handsome and intelligent person full of charisma. He does not have the ire that drives people of his stock like the Boers firmly in control of both The Nationalist Party since 1947 in South Africa and the government therein. He has his own heartbeat that beats slowly and is saturated by church love and prayer. He is now based in the city of Gweru, which has a strategic base, Thornhill Air Force base. Michael was serving with the Rhodesian Air Force during the civil war from 1974-1979. Patricia does what her mind did not think was possible when she marries Michael Du Plessis shortly after the bereavement of his pastor father. Differences arise. Michael is a carefree person whose parents are of Boer origin. His father had cast aside his inheritance in wine estates to be a church pastor for the city of Mutare while his mother had stood head over shoulders alongside her husband. His brother was doing well as a civil engineer in Australia married to a woman who refused to live her native Australia for the then Rhodesia. Will Luke and Mavis Du Plessis's marriage survive in the face of the Christian virtues of the church the senior Du Plessis and wife ministered in? Patricia is the type of girl who really throws her heart to one person at a time. What will the future hold for her? But instead, she faces the heartbreak of having her husband die in a tragic road accident. Who will stand by a widow in her time of trial and morning? Who will befriend her years later when the pain has receded to the back of the mind and only memories remain?