in south africa graca machel has seen some of the worst sides of injustice, having lived through the a trail—blazing humanitarian in her own right, graca machel has signed an open letter calling the pandemic an opportunity to dismantle barriers to equality. she tolds the bbc‘s mishal husain why. we have been aware that we are societies which are very unequal. we have been aware of how these inequalities are affecting mostly women, youth and children. but we got used to our normal situation. the pandemic has brought to the surface, in a very dramatic and glaring way, this inequality. we are in a situation where we cannot ignore them and even close our eyes to it. that is why we believe, not only myself, but we the women who have signed this open letter, we believe it has to be an opportunity to address those structural issues which we have been aware of but we did not have the boldness and the focus of addressing them in short, medium and long term, and this is the opportunity that covid is offering us. in the midst of these extraordinary and extreme few weeks, this unprecedented peri