POLOKWANE – In order to support her family, Khomotso Moseamo is incorporating her love for biking into her daily hustle to make sure there is food on the table for her two children.
Khomotso is a delivery woman and is currently working for a local delivery company in Polokwane and surrounding areas. She said she wants to use her experience as a woman in the industry to highlight the prejudice and discrimination female bikers receive.
“Women on bikes should also be respected and treated fairly because there are still people out there who discriminate and judge us when they see us approaching. Men are not the only ones who are allowed to ride motorbikes,” she told the Polokwane Observer.
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She said she has learnt to take the comments made by men with a pinch of salt and focus instead, on the task at hand.
“I feel that men are intimidated when women enter male-dominated industries and this needs to change. Men and women are equal despite the challenges us women face.”
She said this should go both ways and that men should feel free to work in female-dominated industries as well.
Khomotso first found interest in biking at the age of 16 and said the freedom she gets from being on a bike helps her appreciate the finer things in life.
“Riding clears my mind, it frees me from a lot of things and it’s therapy for me. The people and things you care about are things you’ve chosen to care about, and I’ve chosen to do anything for my children, and that’s why I work hard for them every day.”
