{"id":32385,"date":"2026-04-18T18:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32385"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:11:42","slug":"sa-president-warns-global-inequality-threatens-democracy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-warns-global-inequality-threatens-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President warns global inequality threatens democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for urgent global action to tackle inequality, warning it remains one of the biggest threats to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at the plenary on Extremism and Inequality at the \u2018In Defence of Democracy\u2019 initiative during his working visit to the Kingdom of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa emphasised that inequality undermines democratic progress and limits people\u2019s ability to shape their own futures.<br \/>\nHe highlighted SA\u2019s push to place inequality at the centre of the global agenda, including plans to establish an International Panel on Inequality through the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa says addressing inequality requires coordinated global action, calling on world leaders and institutions to support policies that promote social justice and equal opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13104,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-32385","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ramaphosa says addressing inequality requires coordinated global action.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ramaphosa says addressing inequality requires coordinated global action.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32386,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32385\/revisions\/32386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}