Africa: 'Tackling the Inequality Pandemic - a New Social Contract for a New Era'

[allAfrica] Nelson Mandela spent his whole life fighting against inequality and injustice. "As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world," he said, "none of us can truly rest." I was honoured to deliver this year's Nelson Mandela lecture on the occasion of Madiba's birthday, 18 July, and I chose rising and unsustainable inequality as my theme.