Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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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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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 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 cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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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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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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When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.
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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 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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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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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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There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.
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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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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.
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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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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
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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 need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.
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When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy.
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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.