Former South African president Thabo Mbeki recently painted a gloomy picture of the country and its prospects. He said the governing African National Congress (ANC), led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, did not have a national plan to address the country’s many socio-economic problems. These include high and growing unemployment, inequality, poverty and crime.
The official national unemployment rate is 34.5%. The country is also the most unequal in the world, and about 55.5% (30.3 million people) of the population live in poverty.
