“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
After a wave of lawlessness swept across our beloved Rainbow Nation as looters aggressively plundered, ransacked and burnt stores in shopping malls and warehouses, stoking fears of food and medicine shortages and inflicting a devastating blow to the already battered economy, not to mention the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, these comforting words from American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, are poignant and reassuring.
On the eve of Women’s Month, I shudder when I ponder about the situation of women in our country, owners of small…
