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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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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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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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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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
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Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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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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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 listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
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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 now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.