Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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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 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 again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.
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I believe that our economy is not a one- or two-percent growth economy; I believe it can grow at four percent, and we can revitalize our economy if we do the right things.
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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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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.
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I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.
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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 to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.
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To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.
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South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.
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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 can make this country the garden of Eden.
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We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.
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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 must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.
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In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.
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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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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 must be able to identify those who want divide our movement, and say, 'Not in our name.' We need to choose leaders that will not divide the ANC.
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We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.
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Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.
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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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Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.