President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday acknowledged mounting public frustration with South Africa’s leadership and institutions, two days after miners booed and drove him from a May Day celebration rally.
Ramaphosa — a mining union leader under white-minority rule — was forced offstage and taken to a police armoured personnel carrier after miners shouted him down.
Poverty, inequality and joblessness run high in South Africa, nearly three decades after the end of apartheid rule.
Analysts believe South Africa’s political leadership has suffered a slump in trust among the public at every class level, and that the decline has persisted for more than a decade.
Ramaphosa faces a leadership election in the ANC in December.
