Editor, thanks for the poets’ column, we can't sit silent, the country's rotten: if I exposed the state of the country the Christians’ jaws would drop. Listen! You're going to hear!!

I read in the paper Umteteli wa Bantu of the 16th of the month, this year, that a brother, Mr Tyelinzima Gatyeni, posed this question and ended up answering it himself: “What has stunted the growth of Christianity?” And the brother goes on to say that he is sixty years old, and that from childhood he had been led to believe that the Word of God was preached during church services by the ministers and their evangelists alone. And that was just the way things should be. I, Nontsizi, would not wish to live that long, if after all those years I could come up with nothing logical or sensible.

Listen! The brother goes on to say that today the homes stand empty. “Where's your mother?” The child answers: “She's gone to the women's prayer meeting. She's been away since last night.” Note reader, the child does not say that the mother has gone to church, a place where only ministers and their evangelists preach. The child says, “Mother has gone to the women's prayer meeting,” a place fit for her, where she can preach her fill, slamming her head on the pillars and pews of the church, praying to her heart's content.

To be brief: in other words, one should leave women of the Mothers’ Unions alone, feeble creatures, to bear the heavy burden of the world's Eves, Esthers, Ruths, Deborahs, Miriams and others; the burden of the entire collapse of the world which God created; the burden of a world forgiven and redeemed through Jesus, he too, born of a woman, Mary, another woman who put her trust in prayer. With her were Elizabeth, Martha, Salome and others, all good friends of Jesus, the first to go to the grave long before daybreak, the first to know that Jesus had risen from the dead.

What is the person saying? What is he asking? Shut your trap till your dying day! Because of a woman the world was lost and through a woman it was redeemed. Moses and others you tell us about were there.