Welcome to 'The duPs' - The website of Paul and Margaret du Plessis - Margaret a former Medical Social Worker, Paul a physician.
They served with The Salvation Army in Zambia, the United Kingdom, India, and their homeland of South Africa. They retired to live in Bromley, in southeast London. Margaret passed away in 2019.
Their children, Catherine and Andre, and the wider family have always meant a lot to them. Placing Paul’s poems and other information on a website has been a family request for some years. Grandson, David, took on the project and became the website architect.
Please enjoy reading Paul's poems which reflect something of their life experiences.
Margaret has researched the life of Louisa Mary Tucker, the first wife of pioneer Indian missionary, Frederick Tucker.
Please use the menu on the left and the search function in the top right to navigate through the site.
Here is Paul's most recent poem:
On being promoted to glory
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- Written November 2025
And crowned with a status beyond sainthood,
Surrounded by others who’d gone before,
Enthroned and ready to receive supplications
Of those in need or flummoxed by conflict,
Waiting for an answer, just wanting a better life
That only he could give,
While we wait here, patient in hope,
Expectant with faith applied as a way of life,
Doing our best to follow his way,
Awaiting neither assumption nor beatification
But promotion to a state of glory,
Finally transformed into his likeness [1]
As we enter his presence with joy.
November 2025
On seeing paintings of the Assumption of the Virgin,
The National Gallery,
London.