Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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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 want to renew our vows with our people. We want to reconnect with our people. We want to get our people excited again.
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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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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 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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Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.
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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge 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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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 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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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 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 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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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 are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
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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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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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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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South Africa must come first in everything we do.
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To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.
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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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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.