South Africans are battling 'for the soul of their country', Ramaphosa says

South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa gestures before delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces in Cape Town, South Africa, REUTERS - SHELLEY CHRISTIANS

In the bleakest State of the Nation Address he has delivered in four years at the helm, President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africans are engaged in a battle for the soul of their country.

Ramaphosa warned that the economy, which was a parlous state even before it was dealt the hammer blow of the Covid-19 lockdown, will not recover if South Africans are not able to beat the corruption that has become endemic.