Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.
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We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.
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I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.
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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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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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Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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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 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 must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.
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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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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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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.
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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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South Africa must come first in everything we do.
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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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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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What we want is for our young people to be skilled.
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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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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 now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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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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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.