Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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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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We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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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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I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.
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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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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 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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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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You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.
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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 have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.
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To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.
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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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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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We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.
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Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.
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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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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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South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.
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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 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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South Africa must come first in everything we do.
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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.