Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.
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Nobody, no family, is above the law.
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We say South Africa is an open country, and when people come here, we must deal with them with dignity and respect within the parameters of our Constitution.
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We now have a great opportunity to put land to good use, to take it out of those hands, lazy hands I might say, and put it into the working hands of our people.
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Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.
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Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
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We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
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Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.
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There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.
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Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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We need to remind ourselves of the kind of society of which we have dreamed for so long, for which we have fought, and for which so many lost their lives.
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We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.
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We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.
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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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The country is yearning to put behind all these horrible things that have to do with corruption, state capture, behind us. The sooner these are all done, the better, because we want to move on; we want to move on to a better life.
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We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.
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I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.
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We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.