Bertha Sithembiso Msora was born on 9 August 1947. Of herself she says: ÔI come from a musical/acting family and I started acting when I was five.Õ Her father is the famous Mataka who appeared in some early films in this country and is also a stage magician. Bertha has had some acting experience on radio from the early 70s and has appeared on stage in ÒThe Dilemma of a GhostÕ, directed by Dr. Moyana, and in ÒFinianÕs RainbowÓ at Reps. Open and outgoing, she has worked in turn as a woman trainer with the Zimbabwe Christian Council; Urban Female Community Development Worker with the Ministry of Local Government; Field Worker with the Archidiocese of Harare; and at present she is a Market Research Executive with a Harare advertising company. This, her first published play, won a First Prize in the 1982 Zimbabwe Publishing House Playwriting Competition. Bertha Msora is married and has three children. I WILL WAIT Tambudzai realises that she is dying. She is worrried about her two children who are still too young to look after themselves. So, on her deathbed, she instructs her husband, Togara, to marry Rudo, her younger sister who is still doing her Grade 7. But when Rudo becomes of age, she falls in love with a brilliant young lawyer, Leo-James Chizema. This situation precipitates a crisis which is the subject of this social drama which pits traditional customs against individual freedom.