I want to end my writing with a quote by the famous South African writer Rian Malan, citing his book My Traitors Heart: "I thought, if you really want to live in Africa, you must be able to look at it and say: This is the way of love, down this pad. Look at it hard, this is where it is going to lead you. I think you will know what I mean if I tell you that love is worth nothing until it has been tested by its own defeat…. I felt that I have been asked to try to love enough not to be afraid of the consequences. I realised that love, even if it ends in defeat, gives you a kind of honour, but without love, you have no honour at all. "
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