Ramaphosa grapples with widening inequality as SA's poor unlikely to recover after pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic looks set to increase inequality in South Africa, even as President Cyril Ramaphosa calls for equal economy in the year ahead.

Ramaphosa, in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday evening, called for South Africans to "build a new and more equal economy and a better, more just society".