Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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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 are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
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We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security, and ensure that land is returned to those from who it was taken under colonialism and apartheid.
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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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We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.
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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 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.
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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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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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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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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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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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Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.
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To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.
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We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.
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We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.
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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
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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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Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
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We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.
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We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.