South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that his country needed a fundamental change in order to revive economic growth and tackle endemic poverty, inequality and unemployment he described as unacceptable.
Ramaphosa said there was a need to address the immediate crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also to create conditions for long-lasting development.
(Reporting by Alexander Winning, Emma Rumney and Wendell Roelf; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by James Macharia Chege)
