Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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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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What we want is for our young people to be skilled.
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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 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 must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.
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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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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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I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.
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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 want to clean up South Africa so that we can begin to make it more attractive to investors but at the same time to deal with the issues that are impeding growth.
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As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
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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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Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.
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We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.
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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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South Africa must come first in everything we do.
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One of the other things that is going to help to give a boost to our economy is how we reform our state-owned enterprises. … The state-owned enterprises were sewers of corruption, a number of them. … There was rot, there was filth and there was deep corruption. We are rooting all that out right now.
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We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.
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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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The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.
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You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.
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If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'
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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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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.