Ramaphosa warns inequality threatens global progress [SOUND]

# President Cyril Ramaphosa says inequality remains one of the greatest threats to human progress, limiting opportunity and wasting potential. Delivering a keynote address at the consultative council of the founding committee of the international panel on inequality, Ramaphosa warned that inequality entrenches poverty across generations and restricts access to basic needs such as education, food, and employment. He stressed that global progress is impossible while billions remain excluded from opportunities: