Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.
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When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.
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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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As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
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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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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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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 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 need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.
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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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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 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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People must respect our movement.
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To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.
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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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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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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 to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.
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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 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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South Africa must come first in everything we do.